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Our City – Our Community

June 19, 2025June 19, 2025 Free PressOpinions

By Marie Brown One of the most popular terms used by a variety of people is “We need unity in our community.” I am guilty as well. When people are unified, things happen. Sometimes it’s good—sometimes it’s bad. Many areas,…

Marie Brown

Our Rich Black Heritage : The Former Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association

June 19, 2025June 19, 2025 Free PressOpinions

By Garry Blanson Today known as Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association If you were to ask most Black College football fans in Monroe, Louisiana if they were fimilar with The “S.W.A.C. Sports Conference,” many of them will say that they have…

Garry Blanson

“Brown Bombers” make history; they have stood together for an entire year

June 19, 2025June 19, 2025 Free PressRoosevelt Wright

Councilmembers Juanita Woods (District 3), Verbon Muhammad (District 5), and Rodney McFarland (District 4) have completed their first year together on the Monroe City Council—and what a year it has been. These three leaders have accomplished something no team of…

Roosevelt Wright Jr.

Millions of Black Fathers are doing it right; we see you

June 12, 2025June 19, 2025 Free PressRoosevelt Wright

This Father’s Day, we pause to celebrate a group too often overlooked, underrepresented, and underestimated—Black fathers. Despite what some may believe, Black fathers are not absent; they are active, engaged, and essential. Despite the myth of the absentee Black father,…

Roosevelt Wright Jr

Strong support for retaining Mrs. Sonya Giles Fields as Principal

June 12, 2025June 16, 2025 Free PressLetter to Editor, Opinions

Dear Editor, We are writing to express our united and sincere support for retaining Mrs. Sonya Jiles- Fields as Principal of Roy Neal Shelling Elementary School. Her leadership has had a profoundly positive impact on the students, staff, and the…

Letter to editor, Patricia Johnson, Shirley Burks, Sonya Giles Fields

Our Rich Black Heritage : The Forgotten “L.I.A.L.O.” Negro Organization

June 12, 2025June 19, 2025 Free PressOpinions

By Garry Blanson Part 2 of a 2 Part Series “In order to preserve the HERITAGE, MEMORY, and LEGACY of a VITAL, HISTORIC, GROUND-BREAKING FORMER NEGRO ORGANIZATION, you must keep your head to the plow and stay on course with…

Garry Blanson

Our City—–Our Community

June 12, 2025June 19, 2025 Free PressOpinions

By Marie Brown The Southside Economic Development District (SEDD) for the City of Monroe was legislatively established by former state Senator Charles D. Jones and supported by former state Representative Willie Hunter, Jr. This district received state funding from these…

Marie Brown

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Our City – Our Community

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Our Rich Black Heritage : The Former Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association

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Strong support for retaining Mrs. Sonya Giles Fields as Principal

Dear Editor, We are writing to express our united and sincere support…

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