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From WWNO in New Orleans and WRKF in Baton Rouge, you're listening to Louisiana Considered.

I'm Sarah Hennigan.

On the show today, a new analysis from researchers at Harvard and Stanford finds Orleans Parish students are making some of the biggest academic strides in the country.

Thank you so much for having me.

Great to be here, Sarah.

From WWNO in New Orleans and WRKF in Baton Rouge, you're listening to Louisiana Considered.

I'm Sarah Hennigan.

Black contributions to American roots music runs deep, from the blues and gospel to country, folk, and bluegrass.

From WRKF in Baton Rouge and WWNO in New Orleans, you're listening to Louisiana Considered.

I'm Karen Henderson.

On today's show, we head to the West Baton Rouge Museum to learn about geological efforts to recover Black American family trees.

I appreciate your time.

Come visit us anytime.

From WRKF in Baton Rouge and WWNO in New Orleans, you're listening to Louisiana Considered.

I'm Karen Henderson.

As part of its quarterly series on genealogy, the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen is offering a workshop next month on the recovery of black American family history.

My guests today on Out to Lunch have been Cameron Motzenbacher, CPR instructor and owner of Hands Over Hearts, and Russell Jones, owner of Russell Jones Kickboxing.

We edited this show to fit into our time slot here on WRKF.

You can hear our unedited conversation and find out more about Russell's head kicks, Cameron's heartbeats on the Out to Lunch Baton Rouge podcast.

You can find and subscribe to the Out to Lunch Baton Rouge podcast.

podcast on our podcast app and on our website itsbatonrouge.com if you want to know what we look like and you do want to know what CPR Taylor looks like you can find photos from this show on itsbatonrouge.com and on our Alta Lunch Baton Rouge social media These photos were taken by Ian Leto and Miranda Alvarez.

You can find more of Ian and Miranda's photos at albaletomedia.com and at albaletomedia on all socials.

Out to Lunch is a production of INO Broadcasting for itsbatonridge.com and WRKF 89.3 FM.

The producer of our show is Grant Morris.

From WWNO in New Orleans and WRKF in Baton Rouge, you're listening to Louisiana Considered.

I'm Alana Schreiber.

On the show today, it's the 40th anniversary of the Baton Rouge Interfaith Federation, a nonprofit that brings people of different faiths together to educate and support the community.

And that itself is sufficient.

So,

From WWNO in New Orleans and WRKF in Baton Rouge, you've been listening to Louisiana Considered.

This episode was hosted by Report for America Corps member Alex Cox.

Thanks to our guests, Ma'at Latham, current executive director of the Federation, Reverend Robin McCulloch Boddy, an ordained minister and former director of the Federation, Brother Fred, also known as Winn Ahn, a monk at the Tambau Meditation Center, and Joel Goldman, retired veterinarian and Hebrew teacher.

Thank you.

From WRKF in Baton Rouge and WWNO in New Orleans, you're listening to Louisiana Considered.

I'm Bob Pavlov.

We're still in the midst of hurricane season in Louisiana, and in New Orleans, community groups are constantly brainstorming ways to keep us better prepared for storms.

The Gulf States Newsroom is a partnership among public radio stations in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

From WRKF and WWNO, this is Louisiana Considered.

I'm Adam Voss.

Artificial intelligence has certainly exploded recently, and it's a rapidly changing technology topic.

[Instrumental music] From WWNO in New Orleans and WRKF in Baton Rouge, you're listening to Louisiana Considered.

I'm Sara Hennigan.

On the show today, a new daycare established in a former Lower Ninth Ward grocery store is offering affordable childcare in a previously underserved area.

A grocery store dating back to the 1930s sat vacant in the Holy Cross neighborhood of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward for more than 20 years.

But on August 20th of this year, the site officially reopened as Shiloh Gardens Academy, a new preschool for children in the area who often have limited access to early childhood education.

WRKF's Karen Henderson spoke with the owner of Shiloh Gardens Academy, Pamela Marshall, for more.

Pamela, te- tell us a little bit about your background and your experience in, in early childhood education.

My background in early childhood education came, um, at least, um, about 21 years ago when, um, I had my daughter, who was born premature, two months, um, early, and I was, uh, you know, just anticipating her having developmental delays as w- you know, m- it's normal with a lot of children that are born early.

From WRKF in Baton Rouge and WWNO in New Orleans, you're listening to Louisiana Considered.

I'm Karen Henderson.

On today's show, we learn how cuts to Medicare are impacting patients in need of proper wound care throughout the state.

Oh, thank you.

It was a pleasure.

From WRKF in Baton Rouge and WWNO in New Orleans, you're listening to Louisiana Considered.

I'm Karen Henderson.

It's football season and LSU has been all over the headlines as the university was nearly kicked out of the SEC after head coach Lane Kiffin attempted to add former NFL players to the roster.