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Rep. Ted James has served District 101 in the Louisiana House of Representatives for nearly a decade. During his tenure, James has worked on the Administration of Criminal Justice Committee, which seeks to find ways to improve the criminal justice system. In a recent special session that was called to set forth a task force…

Louisiana state Rep. Edward James, also known as Ted James, just beat his battle with the novel coronavirus. Rolling out spoke with the active 38-year-old about how COVID-19 has impacted his life and about health disparities in the Black community. How did you know that you had COVID-19? I had a colleague who had been hospitalized,…

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.

A Louisiana mother is fuming after two White students posted an Instagram photo of her child with a racially insensitive caption during a holiday event at Byrd High School in Shreveport. The students took it upon themselves to hoist a 5-year-old Black child in their arms, take a photo and caption it: “A Ghetto Christmas…

A White woman armed with scissors at a La Quinta Inn hotel lobby in Bossier City, Louisiana, was fatally shot by police after taunting him with the N-word and then charging him. According to ArkLaTex news station out of Bossier City, 30 miles north of Shreveport, Shannon Rupert, 45, taunted officer Patrick Edmonds Jr., who…

Pretty Yellow is a fiery, lyrical assassin from the small town of Covington, Louisianna. She was the winner of BET’s “The Next Big Thing.” The judging panel was comprised of music industry greats, incuding: A&R and executive Tina Davis, mogul Dame Dash and super-producer, Zaytoven. Late rapper Nipsey Hussle became her mentor during her run on…

Two Louisiana police officers received the harshest administrative penalty after suggesting that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) should be assassinated for a statement she did not make. Former officer Charlie Rispoli was immediately fired for advocating violence after responding to a fake headline from satirical website snopes.com. The website said Ocasio-Cortez stated: “We pay soldiers too…

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…

The ongoing talk about reparations for descendants of slaves has taken a new twist. It was announced that students at Georgetown University, founded in 1789 and located in Washington D.C., may soon be paying a $27.20 per semester fee for slavery reparations at the school. As strange as it may sound that students will pay the…

Police have nabbed a suspect in the burning of Black churches in Louisiana and it has caused shock waves. Authorities arrested the son of a local deputy, Holden Matthews, 21. The burned churches are located in Opelousas and the Point Barre area of St. Landry Parish. Matthews is being accused of setting fire to three…

Students at a Louisiana high school are furious and want answers after a school resource officer’s violent takedown of a student. The incident happened at L.W. Higgins High School in Marrero, Louisiana, on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. Jami Coston, 18, was confronted by a teacher who claimed that he smelled like cigarettes in the classroom.…

Residents in the town of Bossier City, Louisiana, can rest a little easier after the arrest of a sex offender with a badge. Terry Yetman, 38, is accused of multiple sex acts against the most innocent of victims. But these victims were not children or the elderly, they were animals. The Louisiana State Police (LSP)…

A Facebook video posted first to LiveLeak has gone viral after it was posted on social media. The video shows a Black middle school student being violently assaulted by two White school resource officers in what appears to be an unprovoked attack. The incident occurred at Brusly Middle School in Brusly, Louisiana, on Oct. 5,…

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…

Police in West Monroe, Louisiana, received a disturbing 911 call this week when a man reported he had been stabbed in the head with an ax. However, when cops arrived at the scene, they were met by the caller, who had an issue with drug-dealing ghosts. According to The Smoking Gun, Michael Auttonberry, 59, was in…

While the worldwide Catholic Church is rocked to its core with yet another monstrous-sized sex and pedophile scandal, this time in Pennsylvania, the Black community is incensed after seeing a viral video of a Catholic school girl sobbing while being expelled from school for having what school officials referred as “unnatural” braids. Officials at Christ…

The FBI is now involved in the case of Keeven Robinson, 22, of Metairie, Louisiana, after he died during an arrest. According to the Jefferson Parrish Sheriff’s Office (JPSO), Robinson was under investigation for suspected drug dealing. Detectives with the JPSO spotted him at a local gas station and moved in for an arrest but were…

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…