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Pilani Bubu found her music community after she moved from South Africa to New Orleans. She understood that the people she met wanted to learn more about her culture back home. That’s when she started to incorporate South African music into her repertoire
Music
South Africa’s Pilani Bubu has ‘jumped off the shoulder of giants’ to create music filled with tradition
French-speaking Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, has abandoned dwellings are everywhere due to storms, erosion, and rising sea-levels.
Language
Storms and rising sea levels threaten to wipe out French language in Louisiana’s bayou country
Weedie Braimah's "The Hands of Time" features the power and range of the djembe.
Music
Musician Weedie Braimah lets the djembe speak for itself
The Shell Norco oil refinery along the Mississippi River in Norco, LA.
Environment
Hurricane Ida adds misery to ‘Cancer Alley’: Part II
Founder of RISE St. James and 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Sharon Lavigne
Environment
Hurricane Ida adds misery to ‘Cancer Alley’: Part I
Police in camouflage stand amid a crowd protesting against the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse
Conflict
Haitians’ voices need to be heard in country’s rebuilding, former Amb Pamela White says
A group of musicians of color wearing all black clothing stand on stage with their instruments
Music
London composers inspired by BLM confront classical music’s inequities through sound
Two men are shown helping a woman as they wade through a flooded street.
Environment
Storm Marco closes in on Louisiana as Laura buffets Cuba
Harjot Singh Khalsa (left) and Rajkaranbir Singh are hosts of Punjabi Radio USA, which provides valuable information to immigrant workers.
Immigrant ‘digital first responders’ provide vital services. They’re in a financial crisis. 
A shrimp boat is shown in a illustration that combines the boat with a map of the Mississippi Delta.
Growing Food, Sowing Trouble
Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone
The Mississippi River near New Orleans, Louisiana.
Environment
The Mississippi: Pushed to the brink
chef
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
On a journey to Antarctica, a New Orleans chef awakens to the threat of melting ice
A group of dairy cows stand in a caged area inside a farm
Can this radical approach to dairies save US farms?
Isle de Jean Charles
Climate Change
A new book tells the stories of people coping with a changing American shoreline
Recover, Rebuild, Didion
Full Episode
Treme, Sea Level, Iranian Rock
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Guest: Simon Winchester
Arts, Culture & Media
The Riot of 1900
Arts, Culture & Media
Little Queenie
Arts, Culture & Media
Chasing Spring
Arts, Culture & Media
Chili Gumbo
Arts, Culture & Media
The New, New Orleans
Arts, Culture & Media
New Orleans Comedy
Arts, Culture & Media
NOLA Comes to Queens
Arts, Culture & Media
Terence Blanchard
Arts, Culture & Media
The J&M Records Story
Arts, Culture & Media
Theresa Andersson
Arts, Culture & Media
In Praise of Good Men
Arts, Culture & Media
I’ll See Your Lorrain and Raise You a Turner
Arts, Culture & Media
More for New Orleans to Celebrate
Arts, Culture & Media
Bonus Track: “Hey Naa”
Arts, Culture & Media
Treme
Arts, Culture & Media
Get Shorty
Arts, Culture & Media
360 Pick: Rotary Downs Plays On
Arts, Culture & Media
Connie Britton
Arts, Culture & Media
New Orleans Five Years Later
Arts, Culture & Media
Rebuilding It Right
Arts, Culture & Media
The Strange Boys Shake Up A Classic Sound
Arts, Culture & Media
New Orleans’s Prospect in 2010: Making Do
Arts, Culture & Media
When Art Just Isn’t the Best Agent for Social Change
The top of US Supreme Court building is lit at dusk in Washington, Dec. 18, 2017.
Justice
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Mississippi anti-LGBT ‘religious freedom’ law
Women wear costumes as they take part in Carnaval in Jacmel, Haiti. The similarity between Carnaval and Mardi Gras in New Orleans is just one connection the two places share.
Arts
New Orleans and Haiti are linked by culture, food and history
Pecan Acres
Economics
Frequent flooding in Louisiana could lead to buyouts for entire neighborhoods
Flooded Houston
Economics
Human trafficking is a hidden aftermath of natural disasters
Revelers catch Mardi Gras beads during the Krewe of Thoth parade down St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, March 5, 2000.
Business
The destructive life of a Mardi Gras bead
Birth certificate
Justice
Why some immigrants and refugees in Louisiana are having trouble getting married
Kelly Orians facilitates a weekly discussion group for formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs. Until their new space is fully renovated, they meet in the back of an events hall in New Orleans' Gentilly neighborhood.
Justice
Getting out of prison it’s hard to find a job. Why not help ex-prisoners start their own businesses?
Two voting booths, red curtains drawn
Global Politics
Foreign-born citizens in Louisiana have had to take extra steps to register to vote — until now
The Downs family after their rescue. A German U-boat torpedoed the ship they were sailing on in the Gulf of Mexico in 1942.
Conflict
Survivor of WWII U-boat attack: ‘I went under and didn’t think I was ever going to come up’
Leyla McCalla
Music
On her new album, Leyla McCalla connects history, identity and song
Cherice Harrison Nelson (R) with her aunt, who is a bishop at a Spiritual Church in New Orleans. The spiritual church has also adapted the St. Joseph’s tradition, and builds elaborate altars.
Belief
Why African American churches in New Orleans celebrate a Sicilian holiday
New Orleans held emotional hearings over the summer about a plan to remove its Confederate monuments. Last week, the City Council voted to take four of them down.
Conflict
America’s unfinished civil war through the eyes to two US reporters in Africa
New York City's ‘Little Italy’. Mulberry Street, Lower East Side, circa 1900
Justice
A brief history of America’s hostility to a previous generation of Mediterranean migrants — Italians
(Left photo) Mariela, Jefferson and Ilda Sarmiento in the US and (Right photo) Johan in Honduras.
Conflict
One family, 2 nations: How to stay together while US keeps them apart
Katrina flooding
Environment
New Orleans is still vulnerable to another big storm
New Orleans 2
Global Politics
Do feel-good slogans like ‘Resilient New Orleans’ and ‘Boston Strong’ mask income inequality?
Crossley family
Belief
‘Tomorrow is not promised’ — What Katrina brought to my father
A house and vehicles damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as seen in Ishinomaki, northern Japan.
Environment
A decade after Katrina, one researcher looks for global lessons in its aftermath
The 17th Street Canal breach in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Environment
Ten years later, the lessons of Hurricane Katrina apply to all of us
Lake Hermitage’s marsh creation project
Environment
The $50 billion plan to save Louisiana’s wetlands