A bill to give teachers a $1,000 a year raise is being debated in the Louisiana Legislature, but if the bill passes and teachers actually get a raise, Monroe City School Superintendent Brent Vidrine says he may be forced to…
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NAACP vows new suits, despite court “Unitary” declaration
The Ouachita Parish NAACP and leaders of the Black Community are disappointed that the federal courts have dismissed the 53-year-old desegregation suit effectively declaring the school district free from discrimination and court supervision. A decision in the case styled…
We have a Memorial to Robert E. Lee, but nothing for Abraham Lincoln
By Roosevelt Wright, Jr. Across America memorials and building names that salute men who fought against the United States are being protested, except in Monroe. We are the nation in reverse; we have taken down the name of an American…