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WASHINGTON —  A House committee late Wednesday advanced legislation, first introduced in 1989, that would study the issue of awarding reparations to the descendants of American slaves. The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to send a bill to the House floor for the first time to create a commission to study the legacy of American slavery, racist laws and how they affected formerly enslaved people and their descendants. The bill instructs the 13-person commission to consider a “national apology” and recommend any “appropriate remedies” to Congress. In the vote, whic...

Man found shot to death in Natchitoches City police are investigating 38-year-old’s death as a homicide Crime (Source: KSLA) By Curtis Heyen | April 11, 2021 at 5:28 PM CDT - Updated April 11 at 11:16 PM NATCHITOCHES, La. (KSLA) — A Natchitoches man died after having been shot multiple times the morning of Sunday, Aug. 11, authorities report. Now Natchitoches police are investigating the death of 38-year-old Jerome Pier as a homicide. Officers were responding to a call to the 600 block of Rowena Street about 7:03 a.m. when they found Pier. He was pronounced dead by a represen...

To create a large-scale, 30 megawatt solar farm on a golf course in Hatchville, 20 acres of trees would need to be cut and setbacks to abutting properties reduced. Those conditions are cause of much of the opposition to the project. Opponents are saying it is the right idea but in the wrong location. “We support renewable energy, especially a large-scale commercial such as this,” Noreen Stockman, Falmouth Zoning Administrator wrote on behalf of the zoning board. “The town has many appropriate places for ground-mounted solar, like municipal landfills.” The few advocates poi...

NATCHITOCHES, La. -- A Natchitoches restaurant employee was arrested this week after being accused of taking over $12,000 from a customer’s bank account.

Fugitive Slaves, Virginia, 1862/Library of Congress This article won Honorable Mention in the Best Analysis category at the 2020 Labor Media Awards, presented by the International Labor Communications Association. “Enslavement was about the devil’s work of predatory capitalism.” — economist Julianne Malveaux For the first time in over a decade, on June 19, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held its first congressional hearing on reparations. Though it’s a discussion that’s taken many forms over the years, the current talk surro...