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This week Continuum goes back to a program that looks at three types of wandering musicians in early music: troubadours, trouvères, and minstrels.

Families and food banks are scrambling to fill a gap in federal summer food assistance funding. Plus, a New Orleans photographer captures Louisiana’s changing coastline.

Louisiana lawmakers are considering a measure that would ban parishes and cities from adopting sanctuary city policies. Plus, we preview two big upcoming performances on UNO’s campus.

The top federal court in Louisiana has seen an uptick in voting rights cases ahead of this November’s election. Plus, LSU gets a major boost to its efforts to research clean energy production.

Two tornadoes touched down in Slidell, north of New Orleans, earlier this month. The severe weather damaged hundreds of buildings in the area and many residents are still displaced.

Researchers at Colorado State University estimate that this year’s Atlantic season could see 23 named storms, the highest forecasted number on record.

A new lawsuit claims the state’s child welfare system is failing its most vulnerable children. Failures include too few social workers and home placements for children.

We feature gospel and R&B singer Mavis Staples, from the second installment of our show all about Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan admired the civil rights songs of the Staples Singers and would hear them on tour in the early ‘60s. Mavis Staples remembers when her father, Pops, heard Dylan for the first time and how Dylan’s protest lyrics influenced their family in return.

The Supreme Court’s decision means the state’s second majority-Black congressional district will stand for this year’s election.

Tulane University, the site of a recent pro-Palestinian encampment, has upped security measures for its graduation on May 18, 2024.