Christian Davenport has been named the first poet laureate by Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome. Davenport, also known as Cubs the Poet, is a native of Baton Rouge and earned a bachelor of arts in psychology from Dillard University. He has traveled the world since, with the desire of bringing perspectives and inspiration back to his […]
Read more »CLIMATE is a two-year summer program for current high school juniors
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LSU Vice Provost for Diversity Dereck J. Rovaris Sr. has been named president of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education, or AABHE. AABHE is the premier organization to drive leadership development, access and vital issues concerning Blacks in higher education, AABHE also facilitates and provides opportunities for collaborating and networking among individuals, institutions, groups […]
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CASA is seeking caring adults – especially male and African American individuals – to become advocates for abused and neglect children in East Baton Rouge Parish.
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Inspired by her own diagnosis journey with invisible illness, photographer Leslie D. Rose wanted to create something that would help non-ill people better understand what “sick” really looks like.
From her virtual private practice in Baton Rouge, Shameka Mitchell Williams helps people who are overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted. Her focus is singular: help them recover from pernicious experiences and toxic relationships. “I hold space for people who are hurt and confused to talk about what that relationship or marriage is really like without any judgment about […]
“Even with a loving, two-parent home (and) even though we lived in the suburbs of New Orleans, my daughter became a victim. It made me felt like a failure that I could not protect her,” the mother said.
Sometimes life just doesn’t seem to be fair. We start off as little children with big dreams of what we’re going to be when we grow up, all the things we’re going to own and all the places we’re going to go. At the time, a lot of our dreams are unreasonable but we’re too […]
Racism is what it is. There’s no new racism. There’s no new Jim Crow. There is just racism and the evidence of it is all around us.