A swearing in ceremony for newly elected officers of the Ouachita NAACP is resulting in complaints of foul-play from one candidate for the branch’s top slot. The Ouachita N.A.A.C.P. is scheduled to install newly elected officers Thursday night,…
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McCoy says reason white secretary resigned will not be hidden
She may have resigned but it will not be swept under the rug. Those were the words of Rev. Harold McCoy, the only black member of the Ouachita Parish School Board, in response to the resignation of the white school…
Snaps of the City
Between January 18, and January 25, 2023, our friends were busy on social media, including these snaps.
The Southside Dream will be the litmus test for Ellis Administration next year
Three years ago, candidates for Monroe City Council and Mayor all sang a song of working together to build a new Monroe, most notably a united Monroe. Even though we’d heard that song before, for some reason, people believed Mayor…
Lula Mae Goins Green: From the Kitchen to the Ward
1957, Lula Mae Goins Green a 25-year-old negro single mother of three working in the kitchen of St. Francis Hospital in Monroe, Louisiana. Sees the first group of the graduated class from the Natchitoches Negro School of Nursing, Natchitoches, Louisiana…
Services set Friday for Mary Joshua Holmes
Mary Joshua Holmes, 76, a retired educator of 36 years of Monroe, La, departed this life January 19, 2023. Services will be at 10:30 am Friday, January 27, 2023, at Little Flower of Jesus Catholic Church, Monroe, La. Visitation will…
Birthdays January 26th – February 1st
January 26–Robert Welch, Carolyn Honeycutt, Lois Lyons, Tasha Harris, Nellie Lee, Herbert Walk, III, Mary Allen, In Loving Memory of Velma H. Palmer, Tina Harris, Joyce Dotson, Blanche A. Brown, Symone Taylor, Misty Andrews, Micheal Wesley, Yolanda Anderson, In Loving…