There is a feeling and belief permeating our city, and whether you live in the East, Algiers, Lakeview, Gentilly, the 9th Ward, Hollygrove or the Garden District, it is that…
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50TH ANNIVERSARY OF A CAMPUS TRAGEDY – Pt 5
Southern University Students in New Orleans Started It: Black Student Protest Movement and Civil Rights Movement By C.C. Campbell-Rock Southern University students figure prominently in the Civil Rights Movement and…
Noonie Man Speaks About The Recall
Mayor Latoya Cantrell governs in the face of the strongest most organized recall efforts in New Orleans history. Belden “Noonie Man” Batiste is a driving force behind the movement. We…
The City Council Is Going To Check Mayor Cantrell Again
Why stir a roux with one hand when you can do it with seven? If two heads aren’t better than one, then seven sure are. How many people does it…
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF A CAMPUS TRAGEDY – PART 4
STUDENTS UNITED’S FOOT SOLDIERS BEAR WITNESS By C.C. Campbell-Rock “Southern University can become the political, economic, and social base that is needed to develop the Black community and move itself…
New Poll Shows Challenger in Lead in PSC Race
How do outside influencers come into New Orleans and change the trajectory of political campaigns? It’s more than just millions of dollars. There must be a vulnerable incumbent. There must…
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF A CAMPUS TRAGEDY Part 3
Part 3 –Phoenix Rising: Malik, Nate, Sababu & Students United Face Jail & Prosecution During the Students United class boycott, the administration at Southern University’s Baton Rouge campus was so…
Students Share Eyewitness Accounts
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF A CAMPUS TRAGEDY PART 2: Students United Share Eyewitness Accounts of Police Brutality and Murder on an HBCU Campus There was something very wrong on the…
The Race For Governor Is Getting Spicy
Race for Governor is Spicy As A Two Piece From Popeyes Who knows what Attorney General Jeff Landry pulled off in that back room, but when he emerged, he emerged…
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF A CAMPUS TRAGEDY
PART 1: LAW PROFESSOR CALLS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MURDERED STUDENTS & BANNED STUDENTS By C.C. Campbell-Rock Governor John Bel Edwards apologized to Southern students last Wednesday. It came 50 years…