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Oct 21, 2021 · Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021 “What’s up with these cameras?” That’s what Dee Dee Green remembers thinking the first time she saw one of New Orleans’ police surveillance cameras in 2018, flashing red and blue lights over a community garden she manages in the city’s Hollygrove neighborhood.
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Jan 15, 2025 · ‘A make-believe person in a make-believe world’ “I keep paper and pen with me at all times because, like the most dynamic dreams, creativity is as wispy as Louisiana mist and dissipates quickly if not seized,” writes John Corley, associate editor of the Angolite, who says that, in his mind, he still lives in 1989, ‘the year I fell.’
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Nov 13, 2021 · New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was elected to serve a second term on Saturday, defeating 13 challengers to avoid a runoff next month. The outcome is no surprise.
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Divergent rulings on how to treat old split-jury verdicts could …
Nov 11, 2021 · The Advocate series also showed how that legacy appeared to manifest in the modern day. Black defendants, they found, were still more likely to be convicted by a non-unanimous jury than white defendants, and Black jurors were …
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Dec 10, 2024 · A KIPP Leadership student on the playground. (La’Shance Perry/The Lens) Credit: La'Shance Perry / Education – The Lens Closing campuses, changing communities. King School has faced challenges over the years, including a longstanding non-compliance order for special education services, facility problems and allegations of nepotism.But for years, its lower-school campus was a district ...
Neighborhoods Watched: Safety
Oct 21, 2021 · Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021. Clint Carter was suffering from diabetic nerve pain and waiting for a ride to the hospital when he was arrested in June 2018, he told The Lens later that year during a phone call from the Avoyelles Correctional Center in Cottonport, about three hours northwest of New Orleans.