Four years ago, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, spent an afternoon talking with the students and faculty of Louisiana College, a tiny school b ...
Tuesday night’s public discussion about Lafayette’s monument to Gen. Alfred Mouton was civil, cordial even at times, yet reminds us that much of white Lafayette still can’t see the Nathan Bedford Forrest for the trees ...
An attorney for the United Daughters of the Confederacy warned council members they could face contempt charges and be personally financially responsible if they vote to relocate Downtown’s monument to Jim Crow ...
Lafayette’s dream for converting the 100-acre Horse Farm into a public park got a sizeable boost in early January when Central Park Inc. announced that it raised more than $11 million in 2015 ...
Pretending the grotesque firearm violence that disproportionately affects young black men is not everyone’s problem does a disservice to the ideals that made America great ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...