The Airport Minority Advisory Committee has nominated Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport’s Commissioner Chairman Cleve Dunn Jr. for two awards. Since 1984, the Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC)’s mission is to promote the inclusion of minorities and women in...

If there’s one thing Baton Rouge residents can agree on: traffic is terrible. According to nola.com, traffic is the number one frustration for Baton Rouge residents. Every year, a driver averages nearly 47 hours in traffic delays, racking...

Wayde Sims, LSU men’s basketball Forward, was reported as the victim of a shooting overnight  Friday morning, according to Baton Rouge police. The shooting took place at 12:25 a.m. at a Subway restaurant at 668 Harding Blvd. Sims was...

MetroMorphosis has been a driving force behind initiatives in the Baton Rouge, quietly raising the bar of expectations of what is defined as the urban community. One of their key strategies is the Urban Congress on African-American Males,...

Six years ago, Dr. Treva Brown decided to honor her late aunt, Julia Jones, who passed from metastatic breast cancer. “I took her passing hard as I had just begun my new journey of grad school,” Brown says,...

Healthy BR, Baton Rouge Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative, released the 2018 Community Health Needs Assessment and implementation plan during a press conference on Tuesday at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Baton Rouge is the first city in the nation...

Today, IDEA Public Schools kicked off its first day of school in the Baton Rouge area, opening of two schools in its first region outside of Texas.  IDEA Baton Rouge is the home to IDEA Bridge Academy and College Prep in...

Ten states participated in tax-free weekend this past weekend. You may have missed that Louisiana was not one of them. According to heavy.com, last year Louisiana had the tax holiday, although technically businesses only reduced taxes for specific...

Baton Rouge attracts yet another big company to build. Online store, Amazon, applies for a building permit for a distribution center off of Airline Highway and I-10, near Costco. This would be the first Amazon distribution site for...

The current generation was born into technology.  With social applications like Instagram and Snapchat fighting for people’s attention, it can be overwhelming, especially if adolescence is factored into the equation. Cyberbullying, a form of bullying that takes place...