By Rusty Potter A person must be prepared to fight a battle several times before winning. You must know everything you need to win is on the inside of you. You have the power to pick yourself up and move…
Category: Editorial
Perspectives on the lives we live – Topic: City Planning – A quest for a new identity
By Victor C Kirk We all have perhaps lived somewhere else prior to returning home to Monroe or visited a city and internalized what we experienced. Some may have remembered a store, a restaurant, a night out at a remarkable…
Black members of city council silent about our concerns
The Oliver Ellis administration apparently thinks it can ignore touchy issues and they will go away. It appears that part of the city’s new brand is to “say nothing about touchy issues and hope they go away.” Unfortunately, the Black…
Mayor’s “State of City” infomercial ignored many minority concerns
Mayor Oliver Ellis released a thirty-minute infomercial style television broadcast on Easter Sunday in which he summed up his first eight months in office. It was a beautiful production, but many didn’t see it and many minorities who saw…
Perspectives on the lives we live – Topic: George Floyd – The Trial
By Victor C Kirk I am tired of crying. I cannot handle death especially senseless ones. It’s gotten to the point now that each newscast emphases some crazy butt deciding their troubles must be aired in public and their self-diagnosis…
Secret Non-Zero grading policy allows lazy students to pass
It’s not spoken outside of education circles, but it’s known by every public school teacher and student: No matter how poorly a student performs in class, or assignments are missed, the student will never receive a zero. It’s a…
What is the strategy of this generation of Black leaders?
Each generation of our community has benefited from the thinking power of men and women who formulated the strategy for our community and led the struggle. The challenge for today’s leaders is to learn what those before them have done…