Tag: Roosevelt Wright Jr

My, how the times are changing, especially with respect for business among minorities. The Free Press staff is assembling a Black Business Directory for publication later this year. We’ve been making phone calls, knocking on doors and compiling names, addresses…

Daily, we receive mail from inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center and other prisons. For years, we’ve read well-written pleadings from young men who have for one reason or another fallen between the cracks…

The State Representative seat for District 16 has been vacated; we will need our best thinkers to step up to fill that seat. Representative Katrina Jackson has announced that she will not seek re-election to the District 16 seat, but…

As we celebrate the 4th of July, we celebrate freedoms attained, but we also celebrate freedoms not yet attained. On July 4, 1970, a group of nearly 200 young people gathered to attend an “Honor America” celebration at the Monroe…

Tuesday night the Monroe City Schools took action to build a state of the art scoreboard for Neville High School at an estimated cost of $590,000. It was the second of two projects originally intended for Neville High School alone.…

Behind closed doors Tuesday night, school board President Bill Wilson, reportedly began lobbying board members for an extension of the Superintendents contract. That decision would be premature. If South Monroe schools have not improved academically, parents and the community are…

Someone asked once, why are “You people” so angry? “You have to learn to go with the flow and trust others sometimes.” Those who make that claim are usually immune to the problems we face and they wonder why we…