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No fatpacks for me!

August 2, 2018 Free PressBlogs

By: Cadence Wright I’ve started to realize most of the people I see all day around town are overweight. As a kid, we don’t get to make most of the decisions for what we do or eat each day but…

Cadence Wright

Churches, do not leave your first love

August 2, 2018 Free PressBlogs

By: Lisa Wilmore Scripture: Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write… I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say…

Lisa Wilmore

Parents! Please do not force your little children to attend funerals!!

August 2, 2018 Free PressBlogs

By: Dr. Jacquelyn Simmons My dear friends, It is with great concern this servant of God admonishes you not to force your young children to attend funerals. To do so might cause great inward damages which may never be repaired.…

Jacquelyn Simmons

Gerald Manning! We are thankful that God is still in His rescuing business!!

July 26, 2018 Free PressBlogs

By: Dr. Jacquelyn Simmons Scripture: Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the…

Jacquelyn Simmons

Jesus took our griefs and sorrows and made them His own

July 26, 2018 Free PressBlogs

By: Lisa Wilmore My dear friends, Isaiah the prophet writes of the sufferings of Jesus, the Messiah. He paints the picture of how Jesus took our pain upon himself. He records this passage of scripture saying, “Surely he hath borne…

Lisa Wilmore

Be better today than yesterday

July 26, 2018 Free PressBlogs

Every morning is a new day, it’s a new opportunity for your life. Your energy should not be on fighting the old, but on building the new. We should all make a commitment to learn something new every day. We…

Rusty Potter

I finally got my own room!

July 26, 2018 Free PressBlogs

By: Cadence Wright I have been on Summer vacation since school got out. I stayed with my Nana in Dallas. Then, I stayed with my Granny and Paw Paw in Monroe. When I got back to New Orleans this weekend,…

Cadence Wright

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Celebrating Birthdays Today: --Felicia Zeigler, Kathy Robinson, LaTris Smith, Brett Smith, II, Chelsea Carter, Jada Bryant, Margeaner Foy, Tanecia Bishop, Roquisha Hampton, Todd Ryan "TR" Miller, Jr. (9)
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--- This week in 2001 Damian "Grave Digga" Harris was featured in the FP as a rising star among local DJ's. (25)
--- This week in 2002 Judge James Garland Smith's tenure was questioned in a Free Press editorial during his re-election campaign. (24)
--- This week in 2005 Monroe area churches raised thousands of dollars to help assist Hurricane Katrina victims in Monroe. (21)
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Our Rich Black Heritage: “Held down by Louisiana Law!”

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Our Rich Black Heritage: The Forgotten Negro Organizers of “The First Official Monroe Chapter of The NAACP”

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