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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 […]

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'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. […]

Check out recent new episodes of Third Place, WHYR's half-hour public affairs interview show. Host David Brown's recently spoken with Kevin Caldwell on drug law reform, EBR Metro Councilman Lamont Cole on the Alton Sterling case, Jan Moller on the state budget, Chris Tyson and Maxine Crump on race in America, and much more. You can hear Third Place on-demand here and weekly on 96.9FM 6:30am and 5:30pm Thursdays and […]

The Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness has been spying on Louisiana citizens concerned about the construction of Energy Transfer Partners' Bayou Bridge Pipeline through the Atchafalaya Basin ending in a African-American community in St. James parish already surrounded by industrial sites. Construction on that pipeline was stopped in federal court in late February. Democracy Now!, an hour-long national and global news program you can only hear […]

Where the Alligators Roam spoke recently (before the Parkland, FL shooting) with Rhonda Gleason, Louisiana member of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense. Listen on-demand to this and dozens of other Where the Alligators Roam websites at their website, and listen on the radio in Baton Rouge every Friday at 5:00pm. http://wherethealligatorsroam.us/index.php/podcast/schools-as-killing-fields-reignite-moral-outrage-over-gun-deaths/  

Baton Rouge Community Radio's A Pause for Thought recently covered felon disenfranchisement in Louisiana. You can listen to the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a57wmpOh1M The program features an interview with Norris Henderson, executive director of VOTE (Voice Of The Experienced), a non-profit by, of, and for formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. VOTE is the lead plaintiff in VOTE v. Louisiana, currently in the First Circuit Court of Appeals, charging that the state […]

https://youtu.be/a_0g-9bOAXQ The Louisiana All American Sports Show interviewed Mr. Arthur "Silky Slim" Reed on its Saturday, July 29th program. In the interview (beginning at 16:05 in the program) Mr. Reed addressed his recent remarks to the Baton Rouge Metro Council, his continued call for justice in the Alton Sterling case, the killing of three police officers by Gavin Long last summer and his mission to educate Baton Rouge youth in […]