167. April Hensley

167. This week we interview April Hensley.  April lives in Dubach, Louisiana, and writes both ficion and semi-autobiographical literature. She's written Walking in a Waking Dream (pen name Sara Browne), Surfacing Breaking Through (pen name April Hensley-Mccullar).

1. This week in Louisiana history. July 30 1812. William Charles Cole Claiborne becomes the 1st Governor of Louisiana.
2. This week in New Orleans history. On July 30, 1866 New Orleans descended into racial violence that, by the end of the day, would leave an estimated 38 individuals dead and dozens injured. Racial tensions flared after African Americans were denied the right to vote. The enactment of the so-called “Black Codes” infuriated Republicans determined to secure citizenship rights for all Americans, and they ultimately reconvened the Louisiana Constitutional Convention in hopes of seizing control of the state government.  Violence broke out there between armed white supremacists and African Americans marching in support of suffrage. Unarmed African Americans were attacked and murdered, and many law enforcement officials perpetrated the crimes.  An estimated 38 people died, all but a few of whom were African Americans. The city existed under martial law for several days. The riot—and others like it—shocked the country and convinced many Northerners that firm action was needed to control ex-Confederates. After Republicans gained control of Congress that fall, they quickly put Reconstruction policies into effect.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   August 4th, 2016 - August 6th, 2016
   Springhill Rodeo Arena
   N.E. 11th St. and Machen Drive,
   Springhill, LA 71075
   318-423-0928
   Website 
   65th Annual Springhill PRCA Rodeo, Louisiana's oldest rodeo, since 1951.This is rodeo at its finest!
   Rodeo Events:
   Bull Riding
   Team Roping
   Saddle Bronc Riding
   Calf Roping
   Steer Wrestling
   Bareback Riding
   Barrel Racing
4. Postcard from New Orleans. Darleen the Taxi Driver in Algiers.

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166, Peter J. Cooley

166. We interview poet Peter J. Cooley, Poet Laureate of Louisiana. Peter is an English professor at Tulane University, where he has taught for many years. Peter's nine books of poetry are The Company of Strangers, The Room Where Summer Ends, Nightseasons, The Van Gogh Notebook, The Astonished Hours, Sacred Conversations, A Place Made of Starlight, Divine Margins, and Night Bus to the Afterlife.  His poems have appeared in over seven hundred magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Southern Review, and in more than one hundred anthologies.  His work is in three editions of The Best American Poetry.

1. This week in Louisiana history. July 24, 1704 The Pelican arrived bringing 23 girls to the Louisiana Colony (Mobile).
2. This week in New Orleans history.  July 23, 1930,  Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu was born. He served as a Democratic Mayor (56th Mayor) of New Orleans from  May 2, 1970 – May 1, 1978, a judge. a representative on the New Orleans' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of Representatives (1960 to 1966) and on the New Orleans City Council as a member at-large (1966 to 1970).  On September 24, 1979 he was appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Springhill Piggly Wiggly 8th Annual Steak Cook-Off
   July 30th, 2016
   Springhill, LA Piggly Wiggly Parking Lot
   501 S Main St,
   Springhill, LA 71075
   318-539-9116
   Website 
   Springhill, LA Piggly Wiggly Parking Lot
   Steak Cook-Off — Karoke Contest — Kids' Corner — Car & Bike Show — Crafts — Vendors — Plus More
   All proceeds from OUR 10th Annual Steak Cook-Off will donated to St. Jude Children's Hospital, with a MINIMUM of $1,000.00! All sponsors will be listed as donors to this worthy cause!
4. Postcard from New Orleans: Musician Meghan McDonald sings on Royal Street as she busks across America.

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Peter J. Cooley

165. BLM Activist Joseph Coco

165. We interview Joseph Coco, who is a graduate student at LSU and a Black Lives Matter activist. We focus on the events of the last week following the police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge. He is also the executive director of Deep South Justice. Deep South Justice (DSJ) is an community organizing forum intended to build connections between marginalized communities and our allies. DSJ exists to push for policy initiatives, fight discrimination, and to facilitate events and programming in response to injustice in the South of the United States.

1. This week in Louisiana history. July 16 1928 Gov. David Treen born in Baton Rouge.
2. This week in New Orleans history. July 16, 1956. Beginning in 1950, the annual Soap Box Derby, sponsored by NORD, the New Orleans Item, and Chevrolet, zoomed down various overpasses in the city. In 1956, the Derby moved from its former location on the Franklin Avenue overpass to the recently completed Wisner Boulevard overpass. The big race attracted 130 boys that year and drew a crowd of 10,000 fans. The winner was fifteen-year-old Otto Potier.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Purchased Lives: America’s Domestic Slave Trade
   June 4th, 2016 - August 20th, 2016
   Alexandria Museum of Art
   933 Second Street,
   Alexandria, LA 71301
   318-443-3458
   Website 
   Alexandria Museum of Art
   This exhibition, originally shown at the Historic New Orleans Collection, examines the individuals involved in the slave trade, considering New Orleans and Louisiana’s role in this era of US history. The exhibit includes period broadsides, paintings, and prints illustrating the domestic slave trade, ship manifests, and first-person accounts from slave narratives and oral histories.

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164. T. D. Antoine & Joey Kent

164. We interview T. D. Antoine & Joey Kent, who teamed up to create the documentary, Beyond Galilee, about the visit of Martin Luther King to the Galilee Baptist Church in Shreveport, August 1958. They were able to interview members of the church who were there at the time as well as find archival TV footage that had not been seen since the 1950's.

1. This week in Louisiana history. July 2 1952 Construction begins on Ochsner Medical Foundation Hospital in Jefferson Parish.
2. This week in New Orleans history. July 9, 1982. Pan Am Flight 759 Crashes in Kenner.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival
   July 15th, 2016 - July 16th, 2016
   Prather Coliseum
   Northwestern State University, 220 S. Jefferson Street, Natchitoches, LA 71457
   318-357-4332 | 800-259-1714
   Website 
   Prather Coliseum
   This two-day,  multi cultural celebration of heritage and folk art features authetic food from different cultures, Cajun music and dancing, demonstrations, unique folk art exhibits inside A/C Prather Coliseum. Both days is full of musical entertainment featuring Zydeco, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Country and Soul. The festival is host the State Fiddle Championship on Northwestern State University Campus.
4. Postcard from New Orleans. Bruce attends a 2nd line parade with his son Jeff, Sim Shattuck, and Laura Janelle McKnight. He checks in with Sim and Laura to find out what they've been doing since our last interview.

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Beyond Galilee

Laura Janelle McKnight, Sim Shattuck, and Jeffrey

Second Line Parade

163. David Armand, Part 2

163. Part 2 of our interview with David Armand. David was born and raised in Louisiana. He has worked as a drywall hanger, a draftsman, and as a press operator in a flag printing factory. He now teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he also serves as associate editor for Louisiana Literature Press. In 2010, he won the George Garrett Fiction Prize for his first novel, The Pugilist's Wife, which was published by Texas Review Press. His second novel, Harlow, was published by Texas Review Press in 2013. David's third novel, The Gorge, was published on October 1, 2015, by Southeast Missouri State University Press, and his chapbook, The Deep Woods, was published in September by Blue Horse Press. David's memoir, My Mother's House, was published in March 2016 by Texas Review Press. 

1. This week in Louisiana history. July 2 1952. Construction begins on Ochsner Medical Foundation Hospital in Jefferson Parish.
2. This week in New Orleans history. July 2, 1980. Amos White died. White (November 6, 1889 – July 2, 1980) was an American jazz trumpeter.  He grew up an orphan in Charleston, South Carolina, where he played in the Jenkins Orphanage band in his teens.  During World War I White played in the 816th Pioneer Infantry Band in France, and settled in New Orleans after the war. Working as a typesetter, he played jazz in his spare time, working with Papa Celestin and Fate Marable among others.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Celebration on the Cane - Independence Day
   July 4th, 2016
   Downtown Riverbank
   781 Front Street, Natchitoches, LA 71457
   318-352-2746 | 318-352-2746
   Website
   The day begins around 10 a.m. with children's activities and live musical entertainment at 6 p.m. with spectacular firework show over Cane River Lake at 9 p.m. over the Cane River Lake in historic Downtown Natchitoches, Louisiana. Event is FREE and open to the public. Bring blankets or lawn chairs. No ice chests allowed.

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