CenLamar | Est. 2006

Shortly before midnight on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, members of the largest white supremacist hate group in the country, the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, distributed small zip-locked packets on the windshields of vehicles parked along the sleepy streets and in the driveways of Many, Louisiana. Many, the seat of Sabine Parish, is a tiny town of less than 3,000 residents tucked away in the farthest corner of West Central Louisiana, within shouting distance of the Texas border. According to the most recent Census, the town’s racial demographics are split almost evenly: 48.18% white and 47.42% African-American, and…

Edward Gordon “Ned” Randolph, the former Louisiana State Representative, former Louisiana State Senator, and former five-term Mayor of his hometown of Alexandria died in the early morning hours of Tuesday, October 4, 2016 from complications due to Alzheimer’s, a disease he had been quietly and courageously battling for much of the last years of his life. Like hundreds of others from Central Louisiana, I loved and cherished Ned Randolph. During his active years in public life, Ned was a visionary leader and a humble, decent soul who spent his entire career as an optimistic evangelist for the people of his…