By Garry Blanson As I was growing up in Monroe, Louisiana, I can remember my mother, Mrs. Jessie Mae Phenix Blanson, attending and graduating from a local vocational school that used to be located at 700 Rogers Street in Monroe,…
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Our City, Our Community
By Marie Brown People in Monroe are still reeling over the failed 2 Renewal tax propositions that occurred on May 16th. The Monroe City School system has 83% of its enrollment of black students. It has been noted that…
Our Rich Black Heritage: Colored People and “Packing and Cracking” During the First Period of Reconstruction in America
By Garry Blanson As I was going to look up the old nursery rhyme about “St. Ives” — you all still remember that old nursery rhyme — something made me realize that the redistricting currently going on in Louisiana and…
Our City, Our Community
By Marie Brown The primary elections for the congressional, state and local have concluded. There are runoffs forthcoming and all 5 state constitutional amendments were defeated. The most devastating blow were the 2 local tax RENEWAL propositions that were…
Our Rich Black Heritage: Union Baptist High/Elementary School for Negro Children in Monroe, Louisiana, in the 1950s
By Garry Blanson “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905 It’s amazing how not being born during a certain era can keep Black people in Monroe, Louisiana, from…
Our City, Our Community
By Marie Brown 8,538 early votes were cast in Ouachita Parish for the May 16 election for the US Senate and House candidates, amendments, and Monroe City 2 tax propositions. The demographics voting consisted of 5,242 whites, 3,096 blacks, and…
Take that bass out of your voice!
Dear Editor, This era of time brings out of us the Good and the Bad doesn’t it? I want to focus on language or should I say the “tone” of the language when we are engaged in conversation with one…