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A heated discussion at the East Baton Rouge Parish school board in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, went viral over the weekend. Members of the board were debating the possible renaming of Lee High School, which is named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, according to WBRZ. In 2016, the board voted to remove the “Robert E.”…

Rani G. Whitfield, MD shared some insight into how COVID-19 has impacted the Black community of Baton Rouge and the state of Louisiana. He also took the time to debunk some common myths.

Authorities say a sex offender and former felon, who was late on his rent, murdered local icon Sadie Roberts-Joseph and then stuffed her body into the trunk of a car on Friday. According to Buzzfeed, Baton Rouge Police Department arrested Ronn Bell, 38, who lived in one of Roberts-Joseph’s rental homes and charged him with…

Sadie Roberts-Joseph, the beloved community activist who founded the African-American History Museum in Baton Rouge, Lousiana, was murdered by suffocation, according to the local coroner’s office. According to Buzzfeed News, who contacted the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office, Roberts-Joseph died from “traumatic asphyxia, including suffocation,” according to the preliminary autopsy results. Roberts-Joseph’s death has…

Sadie Roberts-Joseph (Photo: Facebook/C. Denise Marcelle, state representative) A Black woman who founded the African American Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was found dead in the trunk of a car near her home on Friday evening. According to CNN affiliate WBRZ Louisiana, the shocking death of local icon Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, sent tremors through the…

A woman was arrested in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after a fight that involved her snatching a wig off of a woman and the chaos that followed. According to police, Sherita L. Griffin, 34, and an unidentified woman got into a verbal altercation that quickly spiraled into violence on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, at 8:30…

Two Baton Rouge Police Department officers, Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni, answered a 911 call to 2112 North Foster Drive where an anonymous caller reported that a man selling CD/DVDs was threatening him and waving a handgun. Alton Sterling, 37, aka CD Man, was killed in the parking lot of Triple S Food…

Back in October 2017, tragedy struck Brittany Stephens, 20, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was then that off-duty police officer Christopher Manuel, 27, crashed his Corvette, traveling at 94 MPH, into Brittany Stephens’ Nissan SUV and killed her daughter Seyaira Stephens, Brittany Stephens was a passenger in the SUV along with three other adults who…

Boosie BadAzz was performing at Choppers Den, a Gardena, California motorcycle club, when a couple of fans were shot and others injured on Friday, Nov. 3. Excited about the turnout, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper wrote on his IG, “They say Cali crazy n sometimes …… they was fighting the whole night… they showed me…

Deputy Nicholas Tullie was shot on July 17, 2016, by Gavin Eugene Long, who shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the wake of the shooting of unarmed 37-year-old Alton Sterling by White cops. Long killed three officers and three survived. Long, who was honorably discharged from the Marines, was shot dead on his 29th…

Caleb Brown, an up-and-coming emcee from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, just graduated high school in May, but he’s already making waves in his local music scene and has big plans for the future. He released an EP, All Dawgs Go To Heaven, in 2016 and just followed it up the sequel and his official debut project, All…

The U.S. Department of Justice is not going to charge the two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, man who was pinned down before he was shot. Sterling, 37, was shot dead last July by police after he was pinned to the ground near a car by the two…

Brooklyn, New York-based photojournalist and activist Ruddy Roye speaks his mind on the recent shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. He also expresses his his thoughts on the senseless attacks happening with police officers around the country. Check out what he had to say.

Law professor Chris Tyson of Louisiana State University shares his thoughts on the memorial service recently held for Alton Sterling and discusses the financial issues that continue to plague Baton Rouge and the Black community as a whole.

The recent police shootings and non-violent protests of Black and White activists has placed America in a precarious position. The morning of July 7, 2016, rolling out published the article “Racism, murder and Black pain in America will lead to unrest.” Later that day, national headlines reported that five police officers were killed by gunman Micah Xavier Johnson…

Violence erupted on the streets of Baton Rouge after a gunman opened fire on police officers. According to reports by WBRZ, the shooting occurred after a man with his face covered and dressed in all-black emerged from a car wash near the Hammond Air Plaza on Old Hammond Highway. Witnesses told authorities that at least…

Family, friends and supporters gather to pay their final respects to Alton Sterling. The funeral is being held at the A. F. Clark Center at Southern University.

A burglary at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pawnshop this past weekend has led to the arrests of three suspects in what police are calling a plot to harm officers. On Saturday, July 9, Baton Rouge police responded to a burglary alarm at Cash America Pawn. One suspect identified as Antonio Thomas, 17, was arrested at the scene…

#TrayvonMartin #JordanDavis #SandraBland #MikeBrown #EricGarner #SeanBell #RekiaBoyd #LaquanMcDonald #JohnCrawford #TamirRice #FreddieGray #KimaniGray #AiyanaStanleyJones #AltonSterling and the list goes on. These are just some of the Black lives that were taken either by or because of cops, or other racist individuals. Sadly enough, most of these lives were taken by the police, the very people who…

While walking on North Foster Drive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana en route to the Triple S store, it was evident that the entire area had been engulfed by the emotions of what occurred 24 hours ago. Hundreds of citizens lined the street and gathered in front of Triple S to protest the execution of Alton…