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Black businesses once thrived here. Is a revival coming?
ISABELLE TAFT, The Sun-Herald
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1of5Olivers Grocery was the only white-owned business in Soria City, where commercial enterprises once thrived. Residents hope to bring business back to the historic community with support from urban planners and others. (The Sun Herald via AP)APShow MoreShow Less
2of5This two-story building stands empty on 1801 Kelly Ave. in Gulfport, Miss. Ronnie Matthew Harris, a community developer, hopes to revive the run-down building to something that will benefit the community. (Alyssa Newton/The Sun Herald via AP)Alyssa Newton/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of5Constant Payne poses in Gulfport, Miss. Constant Payne has returned to the Soria City area of Gulfport to open a restaurant in his childhood neighborhood. (William Colgin/The Sun Herald via AP)WILLIAM COLGIN/APShow MoreShow Less
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Guy Coates, longtime AP reporter in Louisiana, dies at 80
By KEVIN McGILLJanuary 14, 2021 GMT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Guy Coates, a former Associated Press correspondent who covered Gulf Coast hurricanes and civil rights, dodged gunfire during a New Orleans sniper’s shooting spree and chronicled the tumult of politics in his native Louisiana for four decades, died late Tuesday. He was 80.
His wife Jonica said Wednesday that he died at their Baton Rouge home of natural causes.
A graduate of Northeast Louisiana University in his hometown of Monroe, Coates worked stints at the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times; The Times of Shreveport; KNOE-TV in Monroe; and KSLA-TV in Shreveport. He joined The AP in New Orleans in 1968, where assignments could be mundane hours on the broadcast rewrite desk or dangerous.