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writer, editor & professor. based in new orleans. mississippi forever. managing editor of @themargin_us

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A new study published last week by researchers at Tulane University says the Gulf Coast could lose 75% of its remaining wetlands by 2070, jeopardizing the entire city of New Orleans.

Last year, the state canceled two major #coastalrestoration projects that scientists called the last real chance to slow that loss. And yet, communities are still in the water, planting trees, stabilizing shorelines, and holding the land together.

Join reporter Halle Parker (@thehalparker) of @VeriteNews, Amanda Moore of the @nationalwildlife's @restoredelta, and Christina Lehew, Executive Director of @CommonGroundRelief, for a live conversation moderated by Managing Editor Ko Bragg.

Together they'll dig into "Mid-Barataria's Muddy End," what was lost when Louisiana's landmark restoration project was canceled, and what community-led restoration looks like when large-scale solutions fall apart.

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Check out our Community Reporting Fellows in action! Each week the Fellows turn @greenhouseworkspace into a pop-up community newsroom, working with mentors and editors to discuss local issues, sharpen their technical skills and lay out a plan for gathering and sharing local stories.

Over the next few weeks the Fellows will be interviewing, researching, writing and capturing images to tell stories exploring housing issues and changing neighborhoods.

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when a vision of love is realized~

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Meet Ko Bragg — Managing Editor at The Margin

Ko Bragg is a journalist and editor whose work is rooted in care, rigor, and accountability to community. As Managing Editor at The Margin, Ko helps shape the publication’s editorial vision, guiding stories from pitch to publication and ensuring our reporting remains deeply human, justice-centered, and grounded in lived experience.

Ko works closely with writers and editors to strengthen narrative clarity, ethical reporting practices, and editorial integrity across every story we publish. Her leadership helps The Margin tell complex environmental justice stories with nuance, empathy, and impact without compromising truth or care for the communities at the center of our work.

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What factors are driving housing costs up in New Orleans? What are the solutions to displacement? What information do residents need access to? These are some of the questions our 2025-26 Community Reporting Fellows are exploring in the first month of their fellowship, which launched in September.

In addition to learning journalism fundamentals, fellows have been meeting with advocates, experts and community members to get an introduction to local housing issues, and local organizations like @janeplace_communitylandtrust and @nolarentersrightsassembly working on on local housing justice issues. (Also, shoutout to @greenhouseworkspace, our beloved homebase for staff and programs.)

Have a local housing question you want the fellows to explore? Comment here or email ledeneworleans@gmail.com with the subject link “Fellowship Question.”

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Join us for an urgent LIVE conversation about the impacts of the recent Guadalupe River flooding and “After Allen Field”, Amal Ahmed’s deep dive into Harris County, Texas’ first mandatory buyout program.

Register at bit.ly/AfterAllenField and submit your questions!

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Thinking about how beautiful bringing in my 32nd birthday has been this year.

I started May with spending 10 whole days across Germany, meeting people who have left a huge impact on my life, then an amazing celebration at @catheaddistillery with the Cowboy Carter Gemini Bash

All while helping plan a huge cultural event down in Clarksdale. I’m extremely blessed and continuously affirmed that I’m in the right place at the right time. Shoutout to my community!! I love y’all bad 🤒🤞🏾

Cheers to 32!!! 🥂

First 2 photos by @kail_soul
Southern Renaissance panel photos by @_fluseph_
Last photo by @i.khayyam

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Mississippi Put It On Every Time 🤠

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After 3.5 years—buttressed by 2 historic storms—my time as a resident of New Orleans came to an end last week.

Moving to New Orleans felt like a move back home, in the sense that it was a move back to the South. But New Orleans never felt quite like home-home. It felt like being at my cousin’s house—where you’re welcome, but you know it’s not your house.

Immediately, I got the sense that New Orleans had something to teach me, so I stopped talking and started listening. I saw the way that Black New Orleanians communed with their families, honored their elders, and celebrated their ancestors. They seemed to walk with more purpose knowing their ancestors were in the soil beneath their feet. I realized that I wanted to do that too. But that sort of communion does not exist for me there, it only existed in Birmingham. It felt like the city, in the most loving way possible, was guiding me back home.

When people ask where I’m from, I usually say Mississippi via Birmingham. In New Orleans, they would ask, “where are you from-from?” That answer is unambiguous: Birmingham. That’s where I grew up until I was 9, where my extended family is based, where 3 of my 4 grandparents are from, and where I can visit my great-grandparents’ graves.

So, when it became clear that I needed to take over the care for my mother, there was no confusion about where I would do it. I have community in New Orleans, but I have my cousins in Birmingham. So I bought a house, and in a few weeks I’ll be moving Mama in.

I never thought the move to New Orleans would be permanent, but I did think it would last longer than it did. I know 3.5 years isn’t a long time, but it felt like it. Maybe because time moves slower in New Orleans than in New York. Or because there’s so much culture to observe and absorb. Or because of the friends who felt like family. Or because my life quite literally changed: I became an author, quit my job, launched my consultancy, learned how to drive.

This isn’t a goodbye to New Orleans—I met a lot of wonderful people there and I will be back to visit them and the city frequently. This, instead, is a thank you to New Orleans. Thank you for showing me the way home.

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Another Lede event for the history books! 🙌🏽🔥We piloted a professional development series for our Summer 2024 Community Reporting Fellowship cohort, which included resume, cover letter and networking prep workshops!

Our fellows applied the skills they learned at our first ever Community Reporting Fellowship Networking Happy Hour! They engaged in a fireside chat and Q&A with editor and writer Ko Bragg (@keaux) and Parisite DIY Skatepark co-founder Johnny Brasley (@kingxcloudxkicker) and networking games and activities, including an “Affirmation Station” where attendees wrote down their fears and affirmations on cards to hang up and share. At the end of the event, attendees left with an affirmation written by a fellow attendee!

Thank you to all of the creative professionals who came out to support our fellows’ professional development🙌🏽❤️ Y’all are amazing and critical to our program’s success. Special shoutout to Lede board members Jasmine Henderson (@okjazzii) and Megan Braden-Perry (@megandoesnola) for attending and Shaneika Dabney-Henderson (@shaneikadabneyhenderson) for donating a pair of New Orleans Saints tickets to giveaway as a prize for a round of our “Mingle Bingo” networking activity!! ⚜️🖤💛

Fireside Chat Moderator: Fall 2023 Alumni Vonnie Lucas (@vonnieradass)
Event MC: Fall 2023 Alumni Morgan Love (@m.organlove)
Event Curator: Alexis Reed (@alexis_taylorrr_ )
Event Support: Mandy Ortiz (@_m.andyy), Jay Marcano (@marcano.jay), Trevon Cole (@veinteso_coleee), Jen Larino (@jenlarino)

Venue: Nieux Society (@nieuxsociety)
Caterer: @la_cantine_ebnola
Photographer: Jeremy Tauriac @tauriacphoto

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Today was one of those days where everything just felt heavy, so I wanted to go back in time just a month to a moment when I felt so light and so full: when I got to visit my alma mater @thepineywoodsschool as a published author. I can’t even explain how it felt to sit on that stage where I gave my senior speech (and so many other speeches and prayers and readings) and speak to those bright, curious, and hilarious students about the road from the white fence. Thank you so much to @msbookfestival for making this happen! And thank you to my play cousin, @keaux for being a part of it, and showing so much love to these kids in the woods.

And, @thepineywoodsschool, I was not kidding when I said I’d come back in a heartbeat. Just holler!

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An impromptu 36 hours back home 🩵

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