The recent reports from the state board of education paint a grim picture of the Monroe City School system’s failure to adequately educate minority students. With the majority of minority students performing below basic expectations in math, science, English, and…
Category: Editorial
Our Rich Black Heritage: Henderson H. Dunn
By Garry Blanson While I was lying down, it was brought to my remembrance that there was a book “Published in 1930” by the Douglas Loan Company Inc. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, titled, “Who’s Who in Colored Louisiana.” By the…
No more rubber stamps, “A new way and a new day” for city council
Tuesday night, the Monroe City Council took significant and positive action to take control of the council’s agenda and force the mayor to include minority concerns in his plans for the future. By asserting their authority to shape the city’s…
Our Rich Black Heritage: Mary “Mame” Stewart
By Garry Blanson “Oh Susanna, don’t you cry for me ; for I come from Louisiana where the Louisiana Legislators and Government Politicians are unscrupulous as can be!” Well, I don’t know about the rest of the people in Louisiana,…
Swearing-in symbolisms contrasted the reality of the Ellis Administration
Monday’s swearing-in ceremony for Mayor Oliver Friday Ellis and the City Council was meant to be a celebration of unity and progress. However, beneath the patriotic veneer and carefully orchestrated symbolism, the event inadvertently highlighted the deep divisions plaguing the…
Our Rich Black Heritage: Norman C. Francis
By Garry Blanson On the heels of thousands of Black People in Monroe, Louisiana celebrating “JUNETEENTH DAY,” a senior reporter for the Louisiana Illuminator by the name of Julie O’Donoghue, which is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization, published an…
Louisiana’s new Ten Commandments law should be repealed
We believe that Louisiana’s new “Ten Commandments” law, while well intended, is unconstitutional and tramples the rights of those who do not subscribe to the protestant brand of Christianity. The new law, recently signed by Governor Jeff Landry, blatantly disregards…