By Marie Brown Community service involves unpaid work aimed at helping people or improving the local area, such as food drives, environmental cleanups, tutoring young people, and elderly assistance. We applaud all organizations and individuals who stepped up to the…
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Our Rich Black Heritage: Garth C. Reeves Sr., Publisher Emeritus of the Miami Times Newspaper
By Garry Blanson While I was online reminding my Facebook friends that “two Negro neighborhoods” were once established on the land near, around, or maybe even on the land where the “old Holiday Inn” used to be located, it was…
Our City, Our Community
By Marie Brown What is Leadership? HOGAN, which is an international authority on the subject– specifically in the relationship between leadership, personality, and job performance, describes Leadership as being not just a title but an ability to inspire followership. In…
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…
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…
Prisoner asks for outside help
Dear Editor, One of your subscribers has been sharing your newspaper with me for years. I have always felt that you are one of the few, if fewest, who outrightly publish injustices in the system against those who are poor…
Our Rich Black Heritage: The 50th Year Anniversary of the B.D. Robinson Bi-Centennial Committee Report of 1976
By Garry Blanson Every week, “It’s astonishing how history has a way of repeating itself in Ouachita Parish!” Yes, it seems like every other week there’s another example of how a similar event that happened “over 60 years ago” in…