Tag: Roosevelt Wright Jr

Laws and law enforcement officials have a totally different approach to public safety depending on the crime. Many people sell marijuana, oxci pills, crack powder, and other controlled substances; this is primarily a preoccupation of the poor and blacks. Among…

  There’s a plan afoot to revive the old black business district along Desiard Street, but unless a few enterprising Black businessmen move quickly, black entrepreneurs may be left out of the picture altogether.   Beginning in the early 1920’s…

West Monroe High School has produced a new generation of alumni, who seemed to be proud of their school, but they are ashamed of its symbol, the Rebel. Tuesday night, a 2018 West Monroe graduate Dalia El-Giar, presented the Ouachita…

The Monroe City Schools is facing a dilemma that it knows exists, but has offered a solution; an increasing number of its students are being moved through the system without being able to read sufficiently. The fact that it is…

On January 19, 2021, the Monroe City School Board elected Darryl Berry as its president in a controversial vote questioned by most Black community leaders. During the election, which was streamed live on YouTube, the public was allowed to comment…

In the next week or so, many local residents will begin receiving stimulus checks from the government. They won’t be the $1,200 checks that we received in the Spring, but they will be half that much. Even $600 will help…

It’s often amusing to watch the extents to which people will go to “get paid” when times are tough. In fact, some pray for the smallest fender bender so they can sue, settle, make a little money, and laugh all…