The 2020 census revealed a stark demographic shift in Monroe: over 1,000 African American families moved from South Monroe to North Monroe, with many settling in District 2, now a Black-majority area. Yet, the 2022 redistricting failed to reflect this…
Category: Editorial
Remember ignored Carver Library when voting Saturday
By Robert Kenneth Wright As voters consider the property tax renewal funding Ouachita Parish Library Services, a longstanding promise remains unfulfilled: addressing the inadequate Carver-McDonald Library serving the Renwick/Booker T. community. Unlike other branches, the Library Board doesn’t even own…
Our Rich Black Heritage : Abraham “Jack” Henderson Jr.
By Garry Blanson As some of our Black Youth in Monroe, Louisiana are celebrating the recent High School Basketball Championships of local High Schools in Monroe, I stumbled across information about a “NOW “DEFUNCT SEGREGATED” government program that was setup…
Keep up the fight
Dear Editor, I pray that you are well… You don’t know me, but I’ve been reading multiple issues of your newspaper, the Monroe Free Press every day for a week straight now. As my envelope denotes, currently I am incarcerated…
Hope beyond the walls
Dear Editor, My name is Dennis W. Minor, DOC#518772, I am a faithful reader of The Free Press not only because I am from Monroe, South 3rd Street to be exact…but because I have been locked up since 2008, but…
Our City—Our Community
By Marie Brown Daylight savings time started Sunday, March 9, 2025, and will continue until Sunday, November 2, 2025. This has now been observed for 116 years and consists of moving clocks forward in the spring and back in the…
Our Rich Black Heritage : Attorney Louis Berry
By Garry Blanson Recently, I came across a legal term known as,”Racial Polarization.” Although you don’t really hear the term used that much anymore, the term actually goes all the way back to the 1860s! It seems that the term…