Keith Plessy, descendant of the man who tested Louisiana law requiring separate railroad cars, discusses how he came together with Pheobe Ferguson, the great-great granddaughter of the judge who upheld the law.

Also on today's program: Barry Keim on Tropical Storm Harvey, here.

State Climatologist Barry Keim updates us on the tropical storm that was Hurricane Harvey when it landed in Texas, and the impact of that storm in Texas and Louisiana.

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Monica Johnson and Linda Meredith of the organization HEROES (Helping Everyone Receive Ongoing Effective Support) address the HIV-AIDS crisis in Louisiana.

Johnson and Meredity comment on a study examining New Orleans and Baton Rouge and the rural region in northeast Louisiana.

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Florida Public Radio Emergency Network meteorologist Jeff Huffman talks about today's expectations on the path of damage from Hurricane Harvey.

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Jim Engster takes a few moments to talk with Jeff Palermo about what is now Tropical Storm Harvey, converse about LSU sports and the displaced football game coming up this weekend that was supposed to take place in now-flooded Houston, and even touch on boxing and the notable televised fight that took place over the weekend.

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Susan Colton is a retired high school principal from Florida. She says many critical areas of thought are ignored in the public school system.

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Stephen Handwerk, Executive Director of the Louisiana Democratic Party, talks about his party's struggle to stay relevant in a red state. Gov. John Bel Edwards is the only Democrat elected to a statewide office in Louisiana.

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Gary Lewis, the celebrated singer of the 1960s and son of entertainer Jerry Lewis, remembers his father in an interview taped in April of this year. Jerry Lewis died Sunday in Las Vegas at 91 after a 70-year career in show business.

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Poet Donney Rose of Baton Rouge, the subject of criticism from U.S. Senator John Kennedy, talks about the BRAVE funding that allocated $7,500 for him to teach the joys of poetry to kids in the inner city.

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Former LSU football star Mike Leonard was recently featured in a David Brooks column in the New York Times. Leonard discusses his conversion from successful Shreveport dentist to coordinator for Community Renewal, one of the nation's most impressive community building groups.

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