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A new fund in the Greater New Orleans Foundation will honor the memory of pioneer NPR news reporter and Louisiana native, Cokie Roberts, and will build a permanent funding source for radio station WWNO’s local news reporting. The “Cokie Roberts Fund for WWNO Local Journalism” was created with a leadership gift from Cokie Roberts’ family. WWNO aims to raise $1 million in additional donations for the Fund to augment the listener contributions and other revenues that will continue to be vital for the station’s service to south Louisiana.
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Henderson Lewis Jr. is set to retire on July 10 and recently sat down with WWNO education reporter Aubri Juhasz to discuss his experience leading the country’s only all-charter school system. -
A report conducted by a company looking to construct a grain terminal in St. John the Baptist Parish is facing increased scrutiny by federal agencies and will need to be redone to assess how the $479 million project would affect nearby historic sites.
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The United States Supreme Court intervened in the legal battle over Louisiana’s disputed congressional redistricting proposals Tuesday, pausing a federal civil rights lawsuit and ordering the state to use its controversial status-quo district maps when voters head to the polls this November.
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The city didn’t have enough time to order a citywide mandatory evacuation before Hurricane Ida. Now it’s altering its plans.
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The establishment of École Pointe-au-Chien was officially signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards, in a ceremony at the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe building on Friday that signaled an end to an ongoing struggle to establish a French immersion school in the community.
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NPR's Melissa Block speaks to musician Regina Spektor, who's known for her lyricism, about her first album in six years, "Home, Before And After."
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One of the most popular Minecraft players on YouTube, known as "Technoblade," died this week after a battle with cancer. In a farewell message, he finally divulged his first name: Alex.
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NPR's Melissa Block talks with author Morgan Talty about his book, "Night of the Living Rez," a series of short stories about members of a Native American tribe wrestling with poverty and addiction.
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The show is live in Philly this week, and we invited one of the city's heroes. Darryl "Cornbread" McCray is the father of modern graffiti, but what does he know about the game of tag?
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Climate change is posing challenges to vintners in Turkey, endangering the future of an ancient industry.
