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Opinion

Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

Good riddance to monuments, but they’re only scabs on a deeper wound

Healing that wound should be our Tricentennial vow.
by Jacques Morial May 30, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Take ‘Em Down NOLA demands inclusive process for deciding what’s next

Calls for town hall meetings.
by Malcolm Suber May 25, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Monument fight now part of our heritage — but what to do with those pedestals?

What should replace Gen. Lee? Maybe no one.
by Jed Horne May 22, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Area schools still leaving non-English speakers in the lurch

Lack of language services violates federal law.
by Gwendolyn Murray May 18, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Memo to liberal media: New Orleans hasn’t just ‘joined’ movement against white supremacy

A moment in which we deserve to love ourselves
by C.W. Cannon May 7, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Reader slams two Lens columns on Israel, declaring them anti-Semitic rants

Accuses Lens of 'selective outrage'
by Marsha Halteman May 5, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Deb Cotton May 2, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Their art proves therapeutic for young poets in violence-torn New Orleans

And yet arts programming in schools nationwide is on the wane.
by Andre Perry May 2, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Our jazz is culturally black, but its global dissemination owes a lot to Italians

Benito Mussolini dug it big-time
by Anna Celenza May 1, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Rampant use and abuse of ‘solitary confinement’ key to what ails Louisiana prisons

Vera Institute study offers hope for change
by The Rev. William Barnwell April 27, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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