In the last week of March, FEMA officials gave updates to Lafourche Parish residents and council members on proposed group sites for temporary housing. This comes close to 8 months after Hurricane Ida made landfall, displacing an estimated 1,000 residents in the parish. WWNO coastal reporter Kezia Setyawan spoke with Dan Copp, reporter for the Houma Courier/Thibodaux Daily Comet, to learn more.
April 7 marks Major League Baseball’s opening day. And while Louisiana does not have any team in the league, the state is full with rich baseball history. We revisit a conversation with Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro League Baseball Museum, to learn more about the history and legacy of Black baseball teams in Louisiana.
In partnership with the journalism initiative America Amplified, we are excited to bring you the first edition of Liner Notes, a new project where we talk to Louisiana bands and dissect one of their original songs. Today we are joined by New Orleans band Pocket Chocolate to learn how they collaborated to compose, lyricize and mix their latest song, "Waxing Gibbous."
Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Alana Schreiber. Our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz and our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubrey Procell, and Thomas Walsh.
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