LSU is naming the African American Cultural Center after the university’s first black board chairman. The Board of Supervisors voted Friday, without objection, to name the center after the late Clarence L. Barney Jr., of New Orleans and who had served as chairman in 1992. It...
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at 12:00 pm, A.P. Tureaud Jr. will visit LSU campus’s Hill Memorial Library to talk about LSU, Louisiana, and the Civil Rights Movement. His visit is to speak to a group of students studying the Civil Rights movement with Dr. Herman O....
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BATON ROUGE – LSU alumnus Adren O. Wilson was named Public Allies’ fourth national CEO on Thursday, Sept. 4, a position that will support the nonprofit’s mission to advance new leadership communities, nonprofits and civic participation. Wilson – a native of rural Louisiana – has held...
Lettsworth, Louisiana, in Point Coupee Parish, has a population of less than half of the undergraduates currently enrolled in the LSU College of Music & Dramatic Arts. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Kennedy Center Honoree, and six-time Grammy winner George “Buddy” Guy is a...
As Renee Boutte Myer accepted her homecoming crown, she smiled and waved to a silent audience who stared back at her with dropped jaws. Myer stepped into civil rights history in a pair of high heels when she became the University’s first African-American homecoming queen. What separates...