CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • What Exactly Is The Northside Journal?

    First of all, as a disclaimer of sorts, I’m not really sure what’s been going on at The Northside Journal, a paper that ostensibly services North Rapides Parish and the City of Pineville. When it launched over a year ago, it seemed as if the website was meant to complement a published paper. The website even informs readers about where to pick up an actual “copy” of The Northside Journal. The paper and its website were regularly updated for a few months, but things suddenly slowed down. The Northside Journal appeared to have gone on hiatus. Then, months later, during…

  • Historic Alexandria: The Arna Bontemps House

    Arna Bontemps – a noted Black poet, author, anthologist, librarian – was born in Alexandria, Louisiana on October 13, 1902. He is credited with writing over 20 books, plays, and anthologies and was considered the leading authority on the Harlem Renaissance. He was part of a core of young Black writers who led the “New Negro” movement. Bontemps wanted a front row seat to view and participate in the stirrings of jazz, theater and literature taking place in Harlem. His scholarly interest in fostering a new appraisal of his race and re-evaluation of the Black man’s place in American history…

  • Executive Editor of The Town Talk is (Apparently) a McCain Supporter

    In what could be a sign of things to come, Paul Carty, the Executive Editor of The Town Talk, seemingly praised the candidacy of Senator John McCain in an editorial entitled “Listen Closely for the Sound of a President.” Carty begins by attempting to unpack the candidacies of Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. On Hillary Clinton: One of those was her decision to be known as Hillary Rodham, her given name, when she left the South and moved to New York, a state that saw fit to elect her to the U.S. Senate. Hillary, as they call her on…