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Meet Jade the Gymnast

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

Monroe, meet Jade Jenkins, fondly called “Jade the Gymnast”! Jade is a 10-year, advanced-level competitive gymnast here in Monroe, La. Jade has been competing in gymnastics since the age of 5. She is a member of the USAG Organization where……

“Jade the Gymnast”, Jade Jenkins

Snaps of the City

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Snaps

Between March 21, 2022, and March 23, 2022, our friends were busy on social media, including these snaps.  

Snaps of the city, Social media

Snaps of the City

March 17, 2022March 17, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Snaps

Between March 11, 2022, and March 16, 2022, our friends were busy on social media, including these snaps.  

Snaps of the city, Social media

Green wasn’t always St. Patrick’s Day Color

March 15, 2022March 17, 2022 Free PressKids Korner

 by Valaysia Smith, Teen Reporter  Everyone knows Saint Patrick’s day is on March 17th, but did you know it’s about the death of the Saint of Ireland? At the age of sixteen (16), Patrick was kidnapped and taken to Ireland…

Valaysia Smith

Wossman Cinderella story ends with state championship title

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Community News

What a difference a year makes. Last year the Wossman Boys basketball team lost its bid for a state championship and its girls team barely squeaked into the playoffs. The boys team came home to a school yard full of…

Lady Cats, State Championship Title, Wossman High School

The Million Dollar Chiller

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Community News

The Carroll High School Alumni Association and several groups are upset that the city school system is spending $5 million to upgrade this airconditioning chiller located in the student commons area of the campus. They want it moved to the…

Carroll High School Alumni Association

Snaps of the City

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 Free PressBreaking News, Snaps

Between March 5, 2022, and March 9, 2022, our friends were busy on social media, including these snaps.  

Snaps of the city, Social media

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Grambling State University and Thurgood Marshall College Fund inspire future leaders through 2026 SOAR HBCU Scholars Program

Sparklight awards $3,000 Charitable Giving Fund Grant to the Domestic Abuse Resistance Team

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Reflections on 2016 Flooding in Monroe

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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)
Local History
--- 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)

Editorials

  • City schools licensing move is an unenforceable bad move
  • City’s Sickle Cell venue compromise was a win-win
  • The Alphas gave thanks, but the city should do more; much more

Letters & Opinions

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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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September 10, 2026 0

Our Democracy needs committed people now more than ever

By Marie Brown The importance of strengthening the Ouachita Democratic Party Executive…

September 10, 2026 0

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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