McCoy says reason white secretary resigned will not be hidden

She may have resigned but it will not be swept under the rug. Those were the words of Rev. Harold McCoy, the only black member of the Ouachita Parish School Board, in response to the resignation of the white school secretary after texting disparaging comments about Martin Luther King and mistakenly sending them to a black coach.

  Nelwyn Poland Fontana, the former office secretary at Ouachita Junior High School, voluntarily resigned her position as school secretary after a text message exchange that Fontana apparently thought…

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