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Edna’s Cooking “Home of the Breakfast Bowl”

Serving Southern Style Hot Breakfast and Lunch Daily: Monday- Friday 6 am – 2:30 pm and Saturday 7 am – 2 pm. All Plates come with coffee or fountain drink. Great Food! Great Service at Reasonable Prices. Three Monroe Locations *Now Save #1 4399 Hwy 165 South 318-737-7873 *Tiger Market Café 1800 Forsythe Ave Suite 1 318-325-4000 *Now Save # 5 Hwy 165 S and Hadley St. Ms. Edna and Staff ~ Serving up LOVE every day! Edna’s Cooking features $4.99 breakfast and coffee, $6.99 lunch, drink & ice cream waiting for you. Terentius Deburr will serve you up!

2021 Still in Bondage

As the years pass, have things become better or worse for people of color and the poor. Looking around in Monroe LA, the environment south Monroe seems dismal without hope, while looking in north Monroe the difference is noticeable. Will Blacks, people of color and the poor find common ground to transform their neighborhoods. One start is to keep our neighborhoods clean.

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10th Annual Juneteenth

Charles Johnson Park Monroe LA Saturday June 19, 2021, 11 am-5pm- Parade 9am line up, Wossman High School -more info c Marie 318.381.0028.

100 Years Later

It took 100 years just to talk about the Tulsa Massacre. The real holocaust has been with Black Folks!

JB’s Lawn Service

Dependable, reliable and reasonable lawn service, trimming hedges, flower beds cleaned, tree trimming, fence row cleaning, trust the best, JB’s Lawn Service call 318-537-9136.

Rob Lloyd’s Smooth Jazz

Rob Lloyd has been involved in jazz over 4 decades and is a regular reporter to SMOOTHJAZZ.COM...also check out his smooth jazz show (Smooth & Tight on a Sunday night 6pm) Check Rob out on TCRN Smooth Jazz on your Smartphone, Tablet or computer

GUNAA 2021 Virtual Convention

The (Grambling University National Alumni Association) GUNAA 2021 Virtual Convention will coincide with the Inaugural GUNAA Alumni Week. The Alumni Week will begin Monday, August 2, 2021 and will feature presentations from the Membership Committee, Fundraising Committee, Special Projects and updates from GSU Leadership. The Virtual convention will commence on Friday, August 6, 2021 and close on August 7, 2021.

Monroe/Ouachita Parish NAACP Monthly Meeting

June 3, 2021 6:00 PM at Benoit Community Center 1700 Oaklawn Dr., Monroe, LA In Person Meeting until further notice.

Great Gift

For the person who has it all give a gift that never gets old, will not fade, become too small or will just sit in the closet. Send that person you think a lot of a subscription to the Monroe Dispatch 6mos - $22, 1 year - $40.00. Send name address and $$$ to Monroe Dispatch P.O. Box 4823 Monroe LA.

Cancer Alley

Along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, land where Black people were once enslaved on plantations is now being poisoned by petrochemical plants that have given the place a new name: Cancer Alley!

2021 Still in Bondage

While poverty touches every race, creed and culture, 60% of African Americans are poor or low-income (compared with 33% of white Americans) because the promise of 40 acres and a mule was never fulfilled for the formerly enslaved.

Shawnuff BBQ Best in Town

Have you tried the best BBQ in town? Why are you waiting? If it’s not Shawnuff, there’s a difference! You be the judge! BBQ so good you don’t have to say grace, its already blessed! There are 3 sides to every plate: beans, potato salad and slaw, your choice. Right off I-20 and Hwy 165 South. Shawnuff BBQ is here to serve you Tues.-Fri. New Hours 11am – until all the food is gone. On Sat. 11am -2pm get there early to enjoy lip-smacking BBQ and Kool-Aid. Call ahead 318.855.3652. Events catered, and smoke or fry turkeys or hams for the holidays.

New Location-New Name-Same Quality Service!

Got an old vehicle or about to buy a used vehicle, you’ll need good honest mechanics. Trust EasyDoesIt Auto Care Center 675 Kansas Lane, Monroe LA because they do great guaranteed work. They know how to fix and repair vehicles in a timely and reasonable manner. Stop letting you know who, get cha; making you pay crazy dollars you really don’t have, unless you got it like that! Call Easy or Rocky at 318-331-5524, you’ll be glad you did! See ad display pg. 3

Personal Trainer

Ready to get back in shape, increase endurance, become stronger, or increase skills for high school sports, college etc. Personal Trainer Derrick Greer is the guy to get you on track. Give Derrick a holler and let him put you on the schedule to fitness. Derrick’s Motto is “good health is worth more than gold!” Call 318.460.4098.

2021 Still in Bondage

Black people have been denied the fruit of our labor through Jim Crow laws, convict leasing and the redlining and urban renewal that have destroyed Black neighborhoods.

Don’t Ever Forget

You are black, others will remind you with high interest rates, unfair voting reform, redlining, high prison incarcerations and injustice.