Before Tiger Woods swung his first golf club, the Capitol City Golf Association had been recruiting Black golf enthusiast for more than two decades. “There was time where blacks could work on any golf course, […]
Finding Freedom: Memorializing the Voices of Freedom Summer by Jacqueline Johnson (ISBN 1881163520) provides detailed information about the Freedom Summer. Monument on the campus of Western College at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The monument, dedicated in 2000, commemorates […]
THIS SUMMER YOU CAN Relax and go on an adventure at the same time with two books that are sure to knock your sandals off with their fun filled adventures. […]
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY now has its own touring bus. The Office of Student Affairs purchased the bus for $45,000 – it cost $264,000 new – from the Louisiana Property Assistance Agency. The bus has been rebuilt […]
THIS SUMMER THE LOUISIANA king of dance music, Cupid, is delivering new music to help fans shrink their waistlines. […]
WASHINGTON—THE growing racial wealth gap—$200 in median wealth for Blacks in 2011 and $23,000 for whites–threatens na- tional economic se- curity in the United States, according to a recent report by the Center for […]
BY THE END OF 2014, Baton Rouge musician Timothy Carter will have a law degree from Southern University Law Center. But that’s likely not going to be the highest point of his […]
The Glen “Big Baby” Davis Foundation and the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System’s fourth annual “Booking it With Baby” literacy tour will begin Wednesday, July 9. “Over the past four years, my foundation has […]
WHEN JEFFERY WOODS’ WIFE SURPRISED him an expensive T-shirt he said, “I put it on, it looked horrible and I felt so bad”. Instead of returning the shirt, he hung it in his closet as […]
Henry L. Coaxum, Jr., a New Orleans business executive and civic leader, is one of this year’s recipients of the McDonald’s 365Black Awards. The national awards salute outstanding individuals who are committed to making positive contributions […]
JALEN N. LEWIS has been selected as the 100 Black Men of America Inc.’s Mentee of the Year. Lewis is Glen Oaks High School senior, member of the ROTC, and a drummer in the school’s […]
HAMMOND—A LARGE CROWD gath- ered at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church to hear Nelson Taylor, lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the ongoing 1965 civil rights case against Tangipahoa Parish School Board. The case was filed […]
FOR MUCH OF THE LAST TWO YEARS, the proposed St. George breakaway school district has been front and center in the conversation about local poli- tics and education. It is the proposal by a group […]
ARIANNE DERUISÉ received this year’s highest honor of the Director’s Award at the annual Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Deruisé received this honor for her specialized roles of meteorological operations officer […]
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