By Victor C. Kirk Grambling’s loss vs ULM’s Win: I thought it was an irony that the usual Monday morning quarterbacking found among the pages of the News Star was apparently suspended after ULM’s victory over Deion Sanders’ Jackson State Tigers.…
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Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: September 11, 2001- Part Two
By Victor C. Kirk The tremendous carnage of that day was ever present nearly 11 weeks after the event. A visit for thanksgiving to Philadelphia also included a journey by car to New York City. When we arrived, there was…
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: September 11, 2001- Part One
By Victor C. Kirk On the 20th anniversary of the attack of September 11, 2001, I reflected on two experiences; my visit to the site during the thanksgiving holidays of 2001, and a memo sent to me on September 4,…
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Michael Kenneth Williams – Drugs and “Omar”
By Victor C. Kirk I was his friend, but he didn’t know me. It’s strange how we see a movie or TV series and embrace a character. We then look for him or her to “star” in another movie or…
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Wealth in Monroe – A Reckoning
By Victor C. Kirk Every now and then you read what you wrote days and sometimes weeks later and ask the question “is this the perspective I want to propagate”. When I began the quest to unravel wealth in Monroe,…
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Wealth in Monroe – Part Two
By Victor C. Kirk Finding the money in Monroe is quite a task – you are removing layer after layer of an onion. There are signs and signals of where there is paydirt. Several factors are present in the Monroe…
Wealth in Monroe – Part One – Where is the money?
By Victor C. Kirk The Census tables awakened America to its “browning” as the number of African Americans and Hispanics grew in some instances four-fold from a decade ago’s census reporting. Monroe saw a change as well. A total population…