CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Help the People of Haiti

    Through Haitian-born musician and humanitarian Wyclef Jean’s foundation, Yele Haiti. Jean established the foundation four years ago. It’s legitimate, it’s on the ground, and 100% of your donation will go toward immediately helping the people of Haiti. You can immediately give $5 by texting YELE to 501501 or you can give more by clicking here. The Times-Picayune makes the case: In spite of their country’s poverty, the Haitian government and businesses gave $36,000 to Katrina relief. Dozens of Haitian-Americans from South Florida came to Louisiana and Mississippi to help clean up and rebuild. For New Orleanians, though, this is more…

  • Sure You Are

    “I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.” – Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich “I am an African-American candidate. What I mean by that is, I am a candidate that African-Americans have voted for and will vote for.” – New Orleans Mayoral Candidate John Georges

  • Leo Honeycutt’s Authorized Biography of Edwin Edwards

    When Edwin Edwards finished his fourth and final term as Governor of Louisiana, I was just a freshman in high school. Not surprisingly, I don’t remember much from the Edwards years. He had already served two terms before I was born. But I do recall, quite vividly, how terrified many people were in 1992, when it looked like there was a possibility, albeit remote, that former KKK leader and Nazi apologist David Duke could be elected Governor. I remember blue and white “This is Duke Country” yard signs lining Bayou Rapides Road in Alexandria, which made me think the neighborhood…