There are 517 known African-American-owned businesses in Monroe, and two organizations that represent them, neither should be funded by the City. Last week members of the Monroe Regional Black Chamber of Commerce made a news splash at the…
Category: Editorial
Parents are students’ only hope at getting into college
Extra-curricular programs are nice, but high GPAs and ACT scores must be the target We’re at the halfway point of the 2021-2022 school year. Mid-terms are being taken, scholarship applications are being submitted and preparations have begun for collegiate matriculation.…
Saturday, 60 Monroe preachers met in secret to pray
There was a lot of praying going on Saturday morning when about sixty black pastors and ministers met at a local church for prayer. Last week, this column complained that pastors and ministers have not met to pray and seek…
Whatever happened to the old Ministerial Union?
In nearly every African-American community in America, there is a ministerial union or organization of African-American clergy; every community except Monroe. That hasn’t always been the case, but a parish-wide organization of African-American ministers has not existed for nearly twenty…
Even as Covid-19 virus continues, we still give thanks
This week our community, along with the rest of the nation will celebrate God’s mercies with a spirit of Thanksgiving. This will be the second Thanksgiving season that we have observed since our community first began feeling the impact of…
Fobbs record at GSU deserves celebration, reflects national trend
By Roosevelt Wright, III North Louisiana and “GramFam” nationwide were stunned this week after learning, Grambling Football HC Broderick Fobbs would no longer serve as acting coach for the Historic Football Program. Fobbs, a Monroe native, began his career as…
Inmate pleas for help at David Wade
Editor’s note: This is a letter from a prison inmate to the public. It has not been fact checked and the writer’s opinion are his own. Dear Editor, I’ve been incarcerated damn near all my life but that’s another story.…