Senator Cleo Fields has touched a nerve in the state legislature because he wants required schooling for all students to begin at Kindergarten instead of first grade. It doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it is, especially for those…
Category: Roosevelt Wright
Mayor Staci deserves praise, but thank God for the Voting Rights Act
The African-American community should extend a vote of thanks to Mayor Staci Albritton-Mitchell and the West Monroe Board of Alderpersons for their timely decision to work with the Justice Department to insure minority participation in West Monroe government. While West…
Black members of city council silent about our concerns
The Oliver Ellis administration apparently thinks it can ignore touchy issues and they will go away. It appears that part of the city’s new brand is to “say nothing about touchy issues and hope they go away.” Unfortunately, the Black…
Mayor’s “State of City” infomercial ignored many minority concerns
Mayor Oliver Ellis released a thirty-minute infomercial style television broadcast on Easter Sunday in which he summed up his first eight months in office. It was a beautiful production, but many didn’t see it and many minorities who saw…
Secret Non-Zero grading policy allows lazy students to pass
It’s not spoken outside of education circles, but it’s known by every public school teacher and student: No matter how poorly a student performs in class, or assignments are missed, the student will never receive a zero. It’s a…
What is the strategy of this generation of Black leaders?
Each generation of our community has benefited from the thinking power of men and women who formulated the strategy for our community and led the struggle. The challenge for today’s leaders is to learn what those before them have done…
Whites with DWIs and Opid addictions are ill, black drug offenders are criminals; why?
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…