SHREVEPORT, La. - Located at 1057 Texas Avenue you will find the oldest active African American church in Shreveport Antioch Baptist Church. Â
â73Â Black people came together, organized the first colored church,â said the Rev. Bruce Carroll, the current pastor who shared history of the church that dates to 1866.Â
Those members were honorably dismissed from First Baptist Church to start their own, according the Handbook of North Louisiana Online. In 2021, the church has about 75 members, very close to the original number. Â
âIt was designed that they could have a place to worship freely, in whatever manner that they chose,â said Carroll. âThe Avenue was full. It had Black businesses up and down the avenue. The people that came here were people of prominence, people of resources.â Â
Texas Insurance Exec, Harrison, Honored by Big ‘I’ with Woodworth Memorial Award February 25, 2021
Longtime Texas insurance agency executive, William “Bill” E. Harrison Jr., has been honored by the Big “I” with its Woodworth Memorial Award, the national independent insurance agency association’s highest honor.
The Woodworth Memorial Award recognizes individuals who serve the insurance industry and the Big “I” with uncommon dedication.
In addition to ownership of the San Antonio-based agency, TASA Risk Solutions, Harrison is chairman of the Big “I” Reinsurance Company.
Harrison was raised in the insurance industry, joining his father, Bill Harrison Sr., in the family agency, Coleman Company Insurance Services. After serving as both president and a member of the leadership council, he left in 2007 to start TASA Risk Solutions.
Police report: Qinxuan Pan allegedly switched license plate of car he drove to CT
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NEW HAVEN Qinxuan Pan, named a person of interest in the investigation of the slaying of a Yale graduate student, allegedly stole an SUV and changed his cellphone number before coming to Connecticut, according to a police report.
But Pan also allegedly attached a commercial Connecticut license plate to the vehicle, replacing a Massachusetts dealer plate, and “concealed the identity” of the SUV, according to the police report.
The Attleboro District Courthouse in Massachusetts released the report, written by Mansfield, Mass., police to secure a warrant for Pan’s arrest on a larceny charge..
The Gaston Gazette
Squire Parsons, 72, was born in 1948 in Newton, W. Va., and was introduced to music by his grandfather, Will, and father, Squire, Sr., a choir director, who both taught him to sing using shaped noted.
In 1970 Parsons earned a B. S. degree in music from W.V.U. Technology Institute, taught school for several years, and served as music director at various churches. During this era he wrote his signature song, “Sweet Beulah Land,” which won The Singing News Fan Award for song of the year in 1981.
He joined the Kingsmen Quartet as a baritone it 1975 and stayed with them for four years before starting a solo career. Parsons was ordained as a minister at Trinity Baptist Church in Asheville in 1975 as well. He appeared with the Rev. Billy Graham in the Little Rock Crusade, has performed on the Gaither Homecoming Choir series, and currently lives in Leicester, with his wife Linda. He is a prolific songwriter having written dozens over the years and has received num
U.S. Marshals have doubled their reward to $10,000 for information leading to the location and arrest of 29-year-old Massachusetts resident Qinxuan Pan, who is wanted for questioning after being named a "person-of-interest" in the murder of Yale University graduate student, Kevin Jiang.