The Bayou Progressive

30/01/2024

Some of the highlights we caught at this year's Krewe of Mutts Parade.

30/01/2024

14/08/2023

A few scenes from yesterday's NAACP Baton Rouge Branch-hosted August Black Voters Rally event in Scotlandville.

12/05/2023

📰 Baton Rouge Metro Council Approves Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance! 🚀

Read our latest article highlighting the landmark decision that promotes inclusivity and second chances for job applicants with prior convictions.

BATON ROUGE, La. – In a victory for advocates of criminal justice reform, the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro...

01/05/2023

Entergy Louisiana customers will be sharing in a $36 MILLION dollar settlement after being overcharged to cover the expenses of operating the Grand Gulf nuclear plant. The Public Service Commission (PSC) sued Entergy for this overcharging and WON.

BATON ROUGE, La. – Entergy customers in Louisiana are set to receive a $36 million settlement after the Public...

25/04/2023

The Fair Chance ordinance is a free market approach to criminal justice reform.

So why are conservative groups trying to tank it?

According to a rumor going around town lately, if the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council passes the Fair...

18/06/2022

On Friday, Judge Tarvald Anthony Smith of the 19th JDC's Division A ruled that the redistricting map passed by the EBR school board back in April (SB 22) violated Louisiana law and will not be implemented ahead of the November school board elections.

Instead, as of now, the Ware-Collins 11 member plan will go into effect immediately, unless the school board can re-submit a legal map by Wednesday morning.

BATON ROUGE, La. – On Friday, a Parish District Court judge ruled that the redistricting map passed by the...

03/06/2022

Yesterday's press conference outside of the EBR Parish School Board office featured elected officials, parents, and activists who were opposed to the proposed budget cuts that were to be discussed in the public meeting that followed shortly thereafter.

Here is the full video of the press conference.

02/06/2022

Hey everyone,

Thanks for being patient with us during our first year of official operation. We know we haven't published in a while and wanted to give you guys some exciting updates to explain our absence.

Beginning with our next issue, The Bayou Progressive is moving to a topical release model instead of a monthly one. This frees us from the arbitrary deadlines of the calendar and allows us to dedicate complete issues of The Bayou Progressive to deep & multiple-lens perspectives on the important political and government issues in South Louisiana.

Our next issue should really encompass what we mean: we're gonna focus on what's going on with the EBR public school system and whether it's being intentionally set up to fail.

You don't want to miss this one.

21/04/2022

It will take every person that believes in the power and potential of our public school system and wants to continue living in a modern, integrated society to defeat the silent war against our public schools in EBR.

In case you hadn’t heard yet, on Thursday, April 7, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board voted to...

13/04/2022

April is Second Chance Month - a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the barriers faced by individuals with criminal records and unlock brighter futures for returning citizens.

April is officially Second Chance Month. Second Chance Month, is a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the barriers...

12/04/2022

Fi****ms - albeit legal - and medical ma*****na consumption are a potential cocktail for incarceration, says one of EBR's leading cannabis law attorneys.

The State of Louisiana has one of the highest incarceration rates in the United States. Black people in Louisiana...

11/04/2022

These are the two maps the EBR school board was voting between last week.

The first map would keep the board membership at 9 (despite public calls to expand the board) as well as ignore the demographic shifts over the past 10 years that would justify a majority Black school board.

The second map - proposed by board members Evelyn Ware-Jackson & Dawn Chanet Collins, MPA and was the only map with public supporting during Thursday's board meeting - took both into consideration.

The board - voting along racial lines - voted for the first, 9-member map that will reduce the board's Black membership from 4 to 3. https://bayouprogressive.com/2022/04/ebr-school-board-votes-to-advance-blatantly-racist-redistricting-map/

11/04/2022

Corroborating reports indicate that the federal investigation is financial in nature and is connected to Peterson’s years-long gambling addiction.

NEW ORLEANS, La. – Karen Carter Peterson, the former head of the Louisiana Democratic Party and 2021 Congressional candidate,...

10/04/2022

Live After Five this past Friday in Downtown . Visit Baton Rouge