high school sports

Plans to build a football stadium in the 9th Ward are moving forward again, after a nearly decade-long delay.

On today’s episode, we speak with 17-year-old Alex Brock about his journey from being born deaf in Ukraine to playing high school football in Louisiana. We also learn about a nonprofit group working to help incarcerated parents play an active role in their kids’ lives from behind bars.

Many Louisiana schools are scheduled to reopen next month, but if the state is still in Phase 2 of reopening, high contact sports like football will not...