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…
Category: Editorial
If council approves district plan, it owes Kema Dawson an apology
The Monroe City Council’s introduction of a new redistricting plan this Tuesday wasn’t just a legislative formality; it was a quiet funeral for a bold promise. As the city approaches the final vote on March 24, the council stands at…
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…
Diamond Coleman’s arrest for following policy, sends bad message to teachers
Diamond G. Coleman, one of the top teachers at Roy Shelling Elementary, was arrested this week in a scenario she never dreamed was possible. As a child, she dreamed of being a teacher. She never thought that dream could land…
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…