White board members praised Rodney McFarland for leading charge to dump federal discrimination protections; nearly 1000 blacks sign letters or petitions opposing board’s actions. Bill Willson is the new President of the Monroe City School board, but it wasn’t unanimous.…
A report appeared in the print edition of the Monroe Free Press for December 21, 2017, about a shooting incident at Carroll Jr. High School. The school incident was reported as having occurred this week, but was a reprint from…
He wasn’t one of the most powerful Black men in America or the Leader of the Nation of Islam, but when Minister Louis Farrakhan came to Grambling on Friday, December 15, 2017, he was a proud grandpa watching his granddaughter’s…
he Monroe City School Board has voted to file suit to get possession of school equipment of Excellence Academy, even though the final fate of the school has not been decided by the courts. Thursday, in its regular Board meeting…
Rev. Rodney McFarland, Superintendent Brent Vidrine and the Monroe City School Board say the city schools can be trusted to act fairly and does not need the Federal Courts to watchdog them, however, the local NAACP is planning to take…
ULM President Nick Bruno deserves praise for taking the bull by the head and temporarily suspending the Kappa Sigma Fraternity at ULM after it was revealed that some of its pledges made offensive statements about Blacks in their private text…
Honesty Smith was among thousands of excited students in the Monroe area who rushed to get back to school as the 2016-17 school year began on Monday. Teachers were ready and students were “all in our places with sunshiny faces.”…
