Baton Rouge Community Radio is thankful for the help of our volunteer emcee, DJs, engineers, and board operators to make our broadcast of Mid City Gras' first ever Mardi Gras Ball a success. We hope you enjoyed the show and keep listening this year for more unique 96.9FM experiences. Yeah Community Radio!
We at Baton Rouge Community Radio want to thank all those who attended North Gate Fest this past Friday, November 2nd. Proceeds from North Gate Fest help WHYR-LP 96.9FM and other non-profit organizations here in Baton Rouge. Thanks also to all those Community Radio volunteers who helped make North Gate Fest and WHYR's record booth a big success. We couldn't have done it without you! You're what keeps Community Radio on the […]
This week's A Pause for Thought features Southern University Law Professor Angela Allen-Bell on Louisiana's unusual non-unanimous jury law and the upcoming November 6th vote on constitutional amendment #2 to change the law to require jury unanimity. You can listen on-demand here to host Wayne Parker and Dr. Allen-Bell discuss the history of the 10-2 jury law, its effects in Louisiana courtrooms, and the efforts to reform the law leading […]
Louisiana All-American Sports spoke with Southern University Law Center Professor Angela Allen-Bell for the hour during their August 18th program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE3xUgAO8bc Among the topics discussed in this excellent discussion, Professor Bell spoke about the November 6th constitutional amendment to change Louisiana's non-unanimous jury law, the history of the 10-2 jury conviction law in Louisiana and its consequences for criminal justice. She also explained the case of the Angola 3, three […]
On August 1st, Louisiana's new industry-backed criminal trespassing law for 'critical infrastructure' came into effect. The law is intended to hyper-criminalize protests against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, currently being constructed between Lake Charles and the Mississippi River. Earlier this summer, a state judge ruled Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC (BBP) and state government are violating state law by not providing an emergency evacuation route for residents living near the pipeline's eastern […]
Baton Rouge Community Radio is proud to premiere another great new local show you'll only hear on 96.9FM. Starting August 2nd, every Thursday from 7:00-7:30pm listen to Locals Only, hosted by Cindy Wonderful, for exclusively Baton Rouge music, by Baton Rouge artists, from a variety of musical genres including hip-hop and much more. WHYR-LP is the only place where independent, underground music by Baton Rouge artists is on the radio. […]
Baton Rouge Community Radio's variety of news, opinion, and talk programming is covering U.S. immigration and detention policies and popular protest, as we have since we went on the air in 2011. Here's a sampling of recent broadcasts available on-demand: Democracy Now!'s daily coverage, heard locally Monday-Friday at 7am and 4pm on 96.9FM: https://www.democracynow.org/ State of Belief (every Sunday at 12pm), from Sunday 6/24: http://stateofbelief.com/showarchive/2018-showarchive/june-23-2018-zero-tolerance/ Law and Disorder (Wednesdays @ […]
Listen here to a conversation between two members of the Louisiana Poor People's Campaign, Jasmine Pogue and Mia Taylor, on WHYR's weekly call-in show A Pause for Thought (live Wednesdays @ 5:00pm). In a half-hour live conversation, host Wayne Parker, Jasmine and Mia discussed the goals and actions of Louisiana's Poor People's Campaign and the national movement against poverty occurring on the 50th anniversary of the original 1968 Poor People's Campaign. […]
New shows, and some scheduling changes to your favorite existing shows, are coming to Baton Rouge Community Radio this summer! On August 2nd WHYR will premiere Locals Only, a pre-recorded 30 minute hip-hop music show hosted by Cindy Wonderful. Locals Only will air 7:00-7:30pm Thursdays, right after The Black Xperience. Thursday nights on 96.9FM will be even more so the undisputed place to hear local, underground hip-hop in Baton Rouge. […]
