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Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about an effort to fill vacant storefronts in downtown Baton Rouge. We also learn about a study on the rising cost of health inequities across the U.S., and hear about a gym in New Orleans designed for people with disabilities.

Each week, American Routes brings you Shortcuts, a sneak peek at the upcoming show. Alice Gerrard has been a musician, researcher, publisher, and advocate for old-time music for much of her life. She's best known for performing and recording bluegrass and country with West Virginian, Hazel Dickens.

New Orleanians have always loved to cook and to share what they've made with others. So it makes sense that as soon as there was television, there was a Crescent City chef on the screen spreading the good news of New Orleans food. The first was an African American cooking star named Lena Richard, who made her TV debut on WDSU-TV in 1949. Fast forward to today, and it’s tough to tune in to any cooking show and not see a familiar face. This week, three local chefs walk us through the fun and the frenzy of their television encounters.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we break down the LSU Tigers baseball team’s victory at the College World Series. Plus, we hear about a new exhibit celebrating the unfinished works of New Orleans painter and sculptor John T. Scott, and hear a conversation with Louisiana gubernatorial candidate, Sharon Hewitt.

We've been digging in the archives for a series of live concerts between 1993-2001 in front of a million people annually on the National Mall from the Washington Monument to the White House fence, and millions more on public radio nationwide. It was the roots of American Routes.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear a special episode of our award-winning podcast, Banned – to mark one year since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. We head back to Mississippi to learn about the impact of the landmark case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear from three of the 2023 inductees into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Walter Imahara tells us how he went from a Japanese internment camp to becoming a national weightlifting champion. Plus former LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri tells us about his love of working with kids, and sports writer Lori Lyons discusses the trail she blazed for women in the industry.

This summer, more than ever, the challenge is to be and stay cool. So we’re all about songs and sounds as ways to chill out. We asked musicians, critics and producers just what it means to be cool. The late Chicago pianist Ramsey Lewis had a huge hit with a song about cool people, “The ‘In’ Crowd," back in 1965. It was recorded live at the literally underground Bohemian Caverns in Washington, DC. Ramsey Lewis was also known for adapting tunes like "A Hard Day's Night,” “Hang On Sloopy” and "Dancing in the Street" into hip jazz instrumentals. Ramsey Lewis told us he made his own brand of jazz by blending the blues he heard on the Chicago streets with gospel music from home.

Continuum presents a program of Renaissance Band Music.

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of the Olympic Movement, News of Crypto-Winter, News of Musk Love, News of the Atom, The Apologies of the Week, News of Bees, and gets a good sampling of how good the education system is these days.