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Lifelong resident, former Reeves police officer, and Allen Parrish Sheriff's Department Deputy,  Darrell "Soul" Semien, died Sunday, January 24. He was a dear friend and fellow committee member of Oberlin's Perfect Ten. We are devastated by his loss and offer Karla, his kids and family our deepest most heartfelt condolences. Darrell will be missed. He was a devoted husband and loving father who served his community with pride as a Deputy Sherriff. When he passed, never in a million years did his wife and family, dream buying a burial plot at Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Oberlin for his eternal...

Updated Jan 29, 2021 "Wow, what a slap in the face," his widow, Karla Semien, stated. A Louisiana cemetery barred the burial of a Black sheriff’s deputy last week because of its “whites-only” sales restriction. The widow of Darrell Semien, who died last Sunday, was stunned to learn that Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Allen Parish had such a policy that dated back to a 1950s sales contract. “Wow what a slap in the face,” Karla Semien wrote in a Facebook post: Nearly a quarter of the residents in Allen Parish are Black. When Karla Semien and her children went to the cemetery to pick out a...

After a Black man was denied a spot in a ‘Whites-only’ cemetery in Louisiana, the graveyard has apologized Teo Armus Karla and Darrell Semien are pictured on their wedding day. When she tried to bury Darrell in a cemetery in Allen, La. this week, Karla was told they would not accept her husband because he was Black. Before Darrell Semien died on Sunday of bladder cancer, the 55-year-old Black man left his family with a single dying wish: He wanted to be buried near their home in Oberlin, La., and close to his old stomping ground at the sheriff’s office.

BBC News Published image captionThe Oaklin Spring Cemetery has existed since the 1950s, when racial discrimination was legal A Louisiana cemetery has apologised after refusing to bury a local black police officer because of a decades-old provision allowing only white people. The Oaklin Springs Cemetery board met on Thursday to change its sales contract after an outcry over the "white human beings" rule. Officer Darrell Semien's widow called it a "slap in the face" to be denied a plot "because he's black". The board president said they had been unaware of the "horrible" policy. Mr Semien, 55, ...

She told the station the family met with the woman who sold plots. As she recalled to KLFY, "First me and one of my other sons got out of the car when she drove up, and he's white, and she said she was sorry for our loss, and I told her, 'Thank you.' And before I could say anything else, the rest of them started coming out of the car, and she looked at them, and then she looked at me and says, 'We're going to have to have a discrepancy.' She said, 'We're not going to be able to sell you a plot.'"