By Lisa Wilmore (Part 2)Blessings, Dear Hearts! “What a mighty God we serve! Angels bow before Him; heaven and earth adore Him. What a mighty God we serve!” I am humbled to share with you what God has impressed upon…
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Snaps of the City
Between February 26 and Month 4, 2026, our friends were busy on social media, including these snaps.
Birthdays March 5th – March 11th
March 5–Nathayni Trienne’ Moore, Aundra Brass, Hoya Gardner, Brandon Wilson, Arielle Minor, Marvin Atkins, Wardell Cowards, Sr., Jessica Jones, Journey January, In Loving Memory of Jan Thomas Nwokorie, In Loving Memory Anna Johnson James, Della Ann Hill-Johnson, Louis Scott, Emmett…
Death Notices for the week of March 2nd
Curtis Jerome Davis, 41, of Monroe Environmental Tech, died February 22, 2026. Service will be 11:00 am Saturday, March 07, 2026, at Jesus Holy Temple. Visitation is from 3:00 until 5:00 pm on Friday, March 06, 2026, at Smith Funeral…
Our City, Our Community
By Marie Brown We often hear the term “working across the aisle.” Do we actually know what it means? It normally refers to members of one party cooperating with members of the other party to achieve a common goal. In…
Not a setback – a setup
By Rusty Potter Every closed door is not a setback; it’s a setup for you to move in a better direction.If we are honest, most of us don’t like hearing “no”. We don’t like being overlooked, turned down, or told…
Our Rich Black Heritage: John D. Rockefeller, the General Education Board, and funding for the education of Negro children in the South
By Garry Blanson “Although some individual public schools in Monroe, Louisiana and Ouachita Parish currently have Black principals and even a Black Monroe City School Superintendent of Education, the majority of the chief administrators who serve on the Louisiana State…