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Daniel L. Hatcher discusses his book, which looks at how state agencies exploit impoverished families to make money through the U.S. juvenile justice system.

Organizers with the St. Tammany Library Alliance are fighting back against the Accountability Project ahead of a Dec. 13 Library Board of Control meeting, when the public will have an opportunity to comment on library material.

See our current schedule here... Think with Krys Boyd, Monday-Thursday 1pmProduced at KERA in Dallas, Think is a national call-in show featuring…

This week on The Reading Life: Photographer Robert Brantley, author of “Sacred Ground: Cemeteries of New Orleans.” And John Warner Smith, Louisiana’s new…

This week on Thinking Outside the Book: Donna Harrington-Lueker, author of "Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishign and the Rise of Summer…

This week on The Reading Life: Susan Larson talks with Clive Wilson about “Time of My Life: A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans.”July 14…

This week: Producer George Ingmire and I begin a new series, Thinking Outside the Book, about the unusual uses and pleasures of books in readers' lives.…

This week on The Reading Life: Susan talks with Melody Golding, whose beautiful new book is “Life Between the Levees: America’s Riverboat Pilots," and…

This week on The Reading Life: Daniel Brook, whose new book is “The Accident of Color: A Story of Race and Reconstruction," and poet Kelly Harris, the New…

This week on The Reading Life: Susan talks with Louisiana State University history professors Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein, authors of "The Problem…