The text conversation was shared by activist and organizer leader Walter Geno McLaughlin on Facebook. On Monday, McLaughlin posted the Ouachita Parish high school employee’s discussion. “What she didn’t realize is that she accidentally sent her hate-filled message to the wrong person,” the caption read. Source link Related Posts How US schools punish Black kids […]
As of 2000, the US Census allows for citizens to choose multiple racial identities to define themselves. Although this flexibility is meant to allow for greater diversity and move away from racist policies such as the “one drop rule,”Louisiana’s Republican-controlled government is attempting to use this reform against the state’s Black citizens. Specifically, Louisiana is […]
Students from the Tulane University School of Medicine made headlines around the world. It’s because the next generation of pediatricians, surgeons, and psychiatrists is looking back at the ancestors who laid their foundation. “When I was presenting this to some of my classmates, I told them. I was like ‘yo, this is going to be […]
Louisiana has dropped its case against a Black man whose severe beating before his arrest in 2019 led to criminal charges and lawsuits against a state trooper. A traffic violation and charges of resisting an officer had been hanging over Aaron Bowman for two years. Court documents show the Louisiana Attorney General’s office moved to […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has a pattern of looking the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. The federal “pattern-or-practice” […]
“There was not much news in The Daily Iberian for Blacks, and Blacks were doing some amazing things,” Campbell said. “But they were not being publicized. So I thought, ‘Let’s see if we can change a little bit of that.‘” Campbell founded The Ebony Journal, Iberia Parish’s first Black-owned newspaper since Reconstruction, to fill a […]
The 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France was caused by one of the few successful enslaved people rebellions during slavery. Toussaint L’Overture on St. Dominique (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) bedeviled the French which made Napoleon decide to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States. This doubled the size of the U.S. which has been heralded as crucial to […]
Wise was arrested in 2019 for possession of methamphetamine. According to the arrest record, Wise was arrested before 2019, as well. She was booked in the Ouachita Correctional Center on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, violation of uniform controlled dangerous substances law, controlled dangerous substances in presence of persons under 17 years of age, two counts […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chris Kinney, a resident of Rapides Parish in central Louisiana, has seen his electricity disconnected eight times in nearly three years for falling behind on his energy bills to Cleco Power. His family did everything they could think of to catch up: pawning possessions, accumulating vast bank overdraft fees, borrowing money […]
A Louisiana high school student has been accepted to 106 colleges and awarded $4.5 million in scholarships. Kassidy Parnell has a 4.1 GPA, is graduating at the top of her class at Tara High School in Baton Rouge. The teen is also taking computer science classes at the Baton Rouge Community College where she is dual-enrolled […]