Eating God’s Way Presents: Eating To Live—A Healthy Living Cookbook Signing & Tasting by Bianca Plant at the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville, LA on Saturday, August 11 from 6 pm-8:30 pm. Come out and enjoy tastings from the cookbook while touring this historic museum!
Read more »Travellers from the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport gain nonstop options to favorite destinations in Texas and Florida startinng this fall thanks to a new agreement with Via Airlines. The airline has announced it will launch new nonstop service between Baton Rouge Metro Airport (BTR) and Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) in Central Florida and Austin-Bergstrom […]
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On Saturday June 9, 2018, GrowBatonRouge.com will bring a special Farmers & Makers Market to North Baton Rouge. There will be local food, produce, vendors, cooking demonstrations and much more. GrowBatonRouge.com is committed to helping heal communities through healthy food and living. If you are an advocate of healthy eating, fresh produce, and getting rid […]
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Late last year, Governor Edwards directed Louisiana Economic Development (LED) to research and identify process improvements to the Industrial Tax Exemption Program following two 2016 Executive Orders that altered key components of the economic development program. Rules have been in place at the Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry for nearly a year, reflecting the principles expressed in […]
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Louisiana boasts the largest number of Black judges per capita and the Louisiana Judicial Council/National Bar Association prides itself on being the voice of its membership. The Council recently installed as the organization’s 10th chairperson was Judge Piper D. Griffin during its 20th annual meeting in Baton Rouge last month. Griffin has served as the organization’s secretary […]
Southern University and A&M College was well represented by 30 undergraduate and 5 graduate students who participated in the 75th Joint Annual Meeting of the National Institute of Science and Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honors Society, in Washington, DC. This scientific conference, hosted by the University of the District of Columbia, aimed to provide […]
“Will your degree serve you or will you use your degree to serve others.” Angela Rye, political commentator and social activist, was the keynote speaker for the Spring 2018 Commencement Exercises at Southern University, Friday, May 11, in the F.G. Clark Activity Center. More than 650 candidates earned degrees. “My responsibility to you today is […]
Malcolm X articulated love in another form: self-defense. His message was not of violence but of love or self-defense during a time of lynchings and brutal forces of discrimination terrorizing African-American communities....I’m pretty sure Bishop Curry thought of using a few quotes from perhaps another speech delivered by Malcolm X in honor of his birthday but he probably knew he would have had to endure harsh consequences in the long run.
Kenyan-born New Orleans poet and activist, Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa, has made her voice her life’s work. She has been a writer and performer since middle school, with her activism-based poetry amassing almost two million online views, including an official TED talk titled “Black Life at the Intersection of Birth and Death” in 2017. She has […]