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BATON ROUGE - More than 600 students are set to participate in the Spring 2023 commencement at Southern University. Many of them have worked hard and waited four years for the moment to celebrate, but one of them has waited decades to have their special moment walking across the stage.

Despite recent closures, the Marigold and Little Bodega, opening in the next two months, signal promising growth for Five Points.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “To the extent that the state of Louisiana can try to make this right, that’s what we’re gonna try to do,” Edwards said at an event at the Old State Capitol building to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the shooting. The post Gov. Edwards Issues a State Apology for 1972 Fatal Shootings at Southern first appeared on BlackPressUSA.

(Editor’s Note: This is the 4th and final part in a four-part series)

Fifty years after two students were shot and killed by a law enforcement officer during a protest at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s governor has signed a formal apology for their unjust killings

Gov. John Bel Edwards apologized on behalf of the state to the families of two Southern students who were killed by a sheriff’s deputy 50 years ago.

Dave Chapman, superintendent of the South Vermillion Community School Corp. in Indiana, said a student grazed by a bullet accidentally discharged by a sheriffs deputy during a law enforcement vocational training class described the pain level of the nonlife-threatening wound as a "sting."

The Office of Governor John Bel Edwards, putting Louisiana first..

BATON ROUGE - Governor John Bel Edwards signed an apology to Denver Smith and Leonard Brown who were shot and killed during a protest 50 years ago on the Southern University campus. 

Gov. John Bel Edwards apologized Wednesday on behalf of the state to former Southern University protest leaders and the families of two Southern students who were killed by an unidentified