Don’t be duped: The clamor to take down the monuments falls short of a truly radical movement
... Which is too bad, a distinguished professor argues.
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire. This category features thought-provoking essays and commentary from writers, community members, and photographers offering insight into the issues, ideas, and experiences that shape New Orleans and beyond.
Good riddance to monuments, but they’re only scabs on a deeper wound
Healing that wound should be our Tricentennial vow.
Take ‘Em Down NOLA demands inclusive process for deciding what’s next
Calls for town hall meetings.
Monument fight now part of our heritage — but what to do with those pedestals?
What should replace Gen. Lee? Maybe no one.
Area schools still leaving non-English speakers in the lurch
Lack of language services violates federal law.
Memo to liberal media: New Orleans hasn’t just ‘joined’ movement against white supremacy
A moment in which we deserve to love ourselves
Reader slams two Lens columns on Israel, declaring them anti-Semitic rants
Accuses Lens of 'selective outrage'
Remembering Deb Cotton: New Orleans must hold leaders accountable for violence prevention
She died Tuesday. Here's the column she wrote while she was still hospitalized from her injuries in the Mother's Day second-line shooting in 2013.
Their art proves therapeutic for young poets in violence-torn New Orleans
And yet arts programming in schools nationwide is on the wane.
Our jazz is culturally black, but its global dissemination owes a lot to Italians
Benito Mussolini dug it big-time
