Behind The Lens
A podcast by The Lens, New Orleans' first nonprofit investigative newsroom
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Behind The Lens episode 243: ‘The solar Motherhouse’
Nick Chrastil on a judge's order to the Dept. of Corrections requiring a plan to protect Angola inmates working the Farm line in blistering heat....
Behind The Lens episode 242: ‘Extreme heat and dirty water’
La'Shance Perry, Nick Chrastil and Katy Reckdahl on the jail exceeding its population cap and Angola prisoners still forced to work the fields in...
Behind The Lens episode 241: ‘Radical Black joy’
Mizani Ball on the historical and ongoing struggle for civil rights in New Orleans and how its expressed through music in the city. Katy Reckdahl...
Behind The Lens episode 240: ‘An enduring insult’
Special guest writer Lolis Eric Elie on local civil rights pioneers who are being to replace the current street names, including his father, Lolis...
Behind The Lens episode 239: ‘It’s unconscionable’
Nick Chrastil on an eye-popping State Police contract The Lens had to sue to obtain. It's been one year since JPSO shot and killed Calvin Cains III...
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