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Should consenting romantic unions between students draw criminal penalties?

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Community News

An Analysis:   On Tuesday, an 18-year Wossman High School student was arrested and charged with Carnal Knowledge of a Juvenile. The arrest has raised an ethical issue on social media concerning whether either party in a consenting student relationship…

Traveon L. Johnson, Wossman High School student

NAACP head says Judge Jefferson is not source of gang violence

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Community News

“Judge Larry Jefferson is not the cause of gang violence in Monroe,” that is the position of the Ouachita NAACP President Ambrose Douzart. Rev. Douzart, said the NAACP is concerned that the violence among some elements in our community is…

NAACP, Ouachita NAACP President Ambrose Douzart, violence in Monroe

Muslims, others, appeal to gang-bangers stop killing; Jefferson not the problem!

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Community News

Several groups in the community are concerned that many youth in the community are acting recklessly in ways that are detrimental to their own community. That was the theme of a press conference that was held Sunday by members of…

civic leaders, local Black Muslim community, Minister Verbon Muhammad, Mosque #99 in Monroe

Snaps of the City

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Snaps

Between April 1, 2022, and April 5, 2022, our friends were busy on social media, including these snaps.  

Snaps of the city, Social media

Family rejects suicide claim in death of Kirkland Hopkins

April 5, 2022April 8, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Community News

The details surrounding the death of Kirkland Hopkins are sketchy, but his family is working to find out what really happened.    Hopkins was found dead in his home Tuesday, the victim of a gunshot wound to the head.   …

Kirkland Hopkins

Snaps of the City

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Snaps

Between March 28, 2022, and March 30, 2022, our friends were busy on social media, including these snaps.  

Snaps of the city, Social media

Carroll History program salutes alumni

March 24, 2022March 30, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Community News

Carroll High School hosted a Black History program Tuesday saluting accomplished alumni from the school. The special Black history assembly included dances from the CHS dance team, songs by the student-teacher choir, and a musical rendition from…   Log in…

Carroll History program

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This Week In Monroe History

Birthdays
Celebrating Birthdays Today: --Monica Culpepper, Rosetta Cleveland, Adrian D. Harris, Gary Smith, In Loving Memory of Beatrice Harris, Andrea Watson, Luvinda M. Modicue Holloway, Janet Jackson, Gloria Cole, Jacque LeMar Fontenot. (9)
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--- This week in 1990 Cornelius "Augie" Augurson was featured as a symbol of Black Business achievement in the Free Press. (36)
--- This week in 1997 a Free Press editorial questioned the Folk Life Festival's claim of 29,000 attendance. (29)

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Our Rich Black Heritage: “Held down by Louisiana Law!”

By Garry Blanson The White Louisiana Bourbon Democrats, the 1898 Louisiana State…

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Our Rich Black Heritage: The Forgotten Negro Organizers of “The First Official Monroe Chapter of The NAACP”

By Garry Blanson As Black citizens in Monroe, Louisiana, eagerly await the…

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