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Shreveport Q-Prom’s Steven Lamar Knight joins KSLA News 12 for a live interview

Highlighting black women and girls

It was an art-filled night Thursday, June 24 at the Stewart Bell Stadium in Shreveport.

Juneteenth is history — but you may not find it in books and it is rarely taught in schools.

As more and more states recognize Juneteenth as a holiday — people are sharing their stories of what Juneteenth means to them.

It’s the only Shreveport church that was bombed during the Civil Rights Movement

Most of us recognize April 9th, 1865, as the end of the Civil War. But according to State Representative Larry Selders, there’s a little bit more to the story.

Family members sound off on cemetery conditions. Cemetery owner responds.

Mothers of Men session included workshop about effective communication, an education and resource fair, a panel discussion

Activists and other leaders say we still have a long way to go locally and throughout the country

CROWN Act legislation to be introduced during City Council meeting May 25

The marker will be unveiled at Little Union Baptist Church, 1846 Milam Street, at 9 a.m.

Community members gathered on Saturday, May 1, to participate in a peaceful protest against lives lost at the hands of law enforcement.

Beginning at 12p.m., organizers will march from 1310 North Hearne Ave. to the Caddo Correctional Center, which is just over a mile away.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, health experts across the country wanted to pay close attention to minority groups, especially since an overwhelming number of people of color were dying from the virus.

“... We have to come together and do something collectively to really have an effect,” pastor says

Four members of the faculty from three different colleges at Louisiana Tech University are now receiving grant funding to recruit and mentor minority students to increase their participation in STEM fields.

Now, in 2021, KSLA News 12′s Destinee Patterson sat down with sexual assault allies and activists about how the movement has shaped awareness around the issue.

“This particular demographic is hurting more than most, we need to pitch and we need to see how we can lift them, so we can lift up the entire city.”

The bill passed in the House but is stalled in the Senate. Many have said this legislation is the next step in preventing situations of excessive force and/or death by the hands of law enforcement.

‘ReTool Your School’ was created to pour into, upgrade and improve historically black colleges and universities all across the country.

An ArkLaTex university received a major donation that officials say they hope will increase the number of students of color on their campus.

A Black woman at Grambling University is making history.

Triplets, Stevie, Steven, and Stephon Wilson, are set to graduate from Grambling State University the week of April 12, carrying on the tradition as fifth generation graduates from the university; their family has attended Grambling since the 1950s. All three grew up in Winnfield, La.

The monument will be removed from the Caddo Parish Courthouse, but it will be moved to private land at the Pleasant Hill Battlefield site.

This weekend in Shreveport, the community will come together to remember Tommie McGlothen, Jr.

There are currently three states in the U.S. that do not have hate crime laws: Wyoming, South Carolina, and Arkansas. Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson has made enacting one a priority in 2021, but the effort has stalled due to resistance among conservatives in the majority-Republican legislature.

Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins is accepting a call to action issued by former President Barack Obama for communities to enact sustainable change through policies and partnerships to address opportunity gaps that boys and young men of color face in the U.S.

Activists across the world took to the streets in protest after the police-involved deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville. In Shreveport, many demanded answers to police-involved deaths in our own community.

The bill, which addresses training at K-12 schools and postsecondary education institutions with respect to certain concepts related to race and sex, was voluntarily withdrawn by the author pending further dialogue on the issue.