Tonight is Game 6 for the NBA playoff series between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Phoenix Suns. And while the underdog Pelicans have largely been holding their own this series, if they lose tonight, they will be eliminated from the tournament.
To learn more about what to expect on the court, Louisiana Considered managing producer Alana Schreiber spoke with Christian Clark, who covers the Pelicans for the Times-Picayune.
After months of planning, city-led guaranteed income pilots have finally started handing out money to Gulf States residents. The cities hope the pilots will provide lessons on how to deal with poverty — the kind of lessons another long-running guaranteed income pilot program shared during a storytelling event last week.
WWNO’s Aubri Juhasz and the Gulf States Newsroom’s Stephan Bisaha have been following these new pilots launching across the South and spoke about the event.
Today is Yom Hashoah, a day to commemorate the lives lost during the Holocaust, and the heroism of the survivors. In honor of the day, we revisit a conversation with the late Irving Roth, former director of the Holocaust Resource Center-Temple Judea of Manhasset New York and survivor of Auschwitz.
Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karl Lengel. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubrey Procell, and Thomas Walsh.
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