CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Arna Bontemps Museum

    Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak at length with Gwendolyn Y. Elmore, the Executive Director of the Arna Bontemps Museum in Downtown Alexandria. We spoke about the mission of the museum, the challenges it is currently facing, and the legacy of Arna Bontemps, who is largely recognized as one of the leading writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1902, Arna Bontemps spent the first few years of his life in a small house in Downtown Alexandria. Today, the house serves as the Arna Bontemps Museum, which is the very first African-American museum in the State of Louisiana and…

  • Pulled

    Updates: Sorry, I am not going to allow cowardly, anonymous bigots writing on behalf of a political candidate to convince me to resign. The real story in all of this is JacquesBarack: How a political campaign is sheepishly hiding behind the cover of an anonymous blog in order to launch incendiary attacks against people with the courage and fortitude to put their name behind their words, even when it opens them up for attack. The blogger(s) responsible for JacquesBarack have continued to defame, ridicule, and insult me for being disabled, all the while insisting that I should lose my job…

  • Washington Post Reveals Six “Top Secret” Gov’t Agencies in Alexandria

    If you haven’t already, go check out the Washington Post‘s series “Top Secret America.” It’s provocative, incredible stuff. A huge story. And after a year and a half investigation, even Alexandria, Louisiana popped up on their radar. The Post claims there are six “government work locations” in Central Louisiana that are a part of the so-called “Top Secret America,” but to be sure, they don’t reveal who these agencies are or how many people they employ.