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On today’s show, we learn how community health centers are providing care to low-income and underserved Louisianans — and saving the state money in the process. Also, a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor visits South Louisiana this week to share his story and music.

This week on American Routes Shortcuts, we revisit a 2002 conversation with the band Feufollet. Multi-instrumentalist Chris Stafford passed away in May 2024. He was 36.On the Cajun side of French Louisiana, there is a tradition of children’s songs, from lullabies like “Fais Do Do Tite Mignon” to this play tune "Saute Crapaud” about a frog that needs to jump. Nowadays there’s something new in the music for youth in the French scene here: musicians from age seven up drawing crowds of kids and adults. The most widely traveled teenage Cajun band is called Feufollet. They came in to talk about why they learned to play French music, Louisiana style. We spoke with sixteen-year-old singer and guitarist Ashley Hayes, and fiddlers Chris Segura, eighteen, and Chris Stafford, the youngest at fourteen, who also plays accordion.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear the second part of the latest episode of Sea Change about the lasting impacts of segregated beaches in New Orleans. Plus, we head to the Historic New Orleans Collection to learn about an exhibit on the connection between slavery and the modern prison system.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn how property rights legislation may block the state’s access to clean wind energy. We also hear about a new art exhibition in Baton Rouge on a pioneering female architect, and catch up on this week in politics.

Hippocrates said, "Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food." That line is just as true today as it was when the Greek physician said it 2,500 years ago. We know we are what we eat and drink, yet we don’t always consume what's best for our bodies, minds, or souls. On this week's show, we gather together three experts to examine the impact our diets, our cravings, and mental health have on our lives.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about a new law that gives parents money to spend on private education for their children. We also get a sneak peak of a cultural event that kicks off the New Orleans arts season and visit three climate-smart farms in Mississippi.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn about new grant funding for projects to address compensation for early childhood educators. We also hear about a traveling art exhibit that sheds light on the toll of the death penalty, and learn about a new treatment for sickle cell disease.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we break down last week’s Democratic National Convention. We hear a rundown from political consultant James Carville and more about the Louisiana woman who shared her personal story at the convention.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn why inmates in New Orleans will have to wait an extra year for reduced phone call rates, despite new federal regulation. We also speak with the NOLA Project’s new artistic director and hear how schools in the South are keeping football players safe in extreme heat.

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us regular features like News of the Olympic Movement, News of the Warm, News of Microplastics, News of AI, News of Bees, News of Musk Love, and The Apologies of the Week. He also considers “the greatest man-made engineering catastrophe since Chernobyl,” fixations of the media, and the outcome of a lawsuit filed by a Colorado photographer.