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“12 Years a Slave” Makes Central Louisiana Focus of International Attention
After a few miles, the Cheneyville, Louisiana fire truck I was following pulled over to the side of the road. It was a desolate expanse of dead cotton. The driver of the truck, a distant cousin of mine whose last name, coincidentally, is also White (we’re actually related through my paternal grandmother’s family), ambled out. “Here it is,” he said, pointing to the right, while Mack trucks shook by on the two-lane highway. “This is William Prince Ford’s plantation, or what’s left of it.” I had been contacted a few weeks prior by the BBC, and they were in our…
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THE SORDID END OF JOE AGUILLARD
Originally posted on The Party of Louisiana: Louisiana College President Joe Aguillard Paid Former Assistant Joseph Cole Approximately $70,000 In “BIackmail” Money To Conceal Scandalous and Potentially Illegal Activities Amidst Rumors of Drug Use, Pornography, and Allegedly Improper Sexual Relationships Between President Agullard’s Special Assistant and Two Teenage Boys at a Local Hotel Room. ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, February 26, 2014: This morning, the website Faith on View published a blockbuster report revealing the Board Minutes of a meeting that occurred on November 15, 2011. According to the documents, President Aguillard is accused of fabricating accreditation documents for the Southern Association of Colleges System. As best as…
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Sen. Karen Carter-Peterson Files Bill To Repeal The Louisiana Science Education Act
For the fourth consecutive year, Louisiana State Senator Karen Carter-Peterson filed a bill to repeal the unconstitutional, misguided, and misnamed Louisiana Science Education Act (the LSEA), a law that allows public school science teachers the ability to introduce New Earth Creationism and “Intelligent Design” Creationism as valid alternatives to the fact and the scientific theory of evolution. The repeal effort, which has been spearheaded by science education advocate Zack Kopplin, is endorsed by 78 Nobel laureates, nearly 100,000 petition signatories, and the world’s leading scientific organizations, including “the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the American Ornithologists Union, the American Society of Mammalogists, the Botanical Society…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
