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B ATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Members of the Baton Rouge chapter of the NAACP and community members held a small, peaceful protest outside of Stab’s Prime Steak and Seafood.
PEACEFUL PROTEST IN BATON ROUGE — In Baton Rouge, protesters made a statement in a peaceful way. For the community, George Floyd's death brings up painful memories. Floyd's death brought many ...
Protesters gathered outside the Raising Cane's River Center in Baton Rouge on Sunday, Feb. 2. They held up signs against the mass deportations that are happening nationwide.
Craig Bilbrew, a teacher in East Baton Rouge, holds a list of questions asked anonymously to fellow teachers, as educators rally for more safety at EBR schools before a meeting of the school board ...
Baton Rouge, La. (KLFY) A protest and rally is planned for Thursday in Baton Rouge where organizations from across the state will be gathering to demand justice for 49-year-old Ronald Greene.
Civil rights groups and activists sued Baton Rouge law enforcement agencies over their treatment of protesters rallying against the police shooting death of a black man, saying officers used ...
BATON ROUGE — If there's violence in Baton Rouge on Sunday, a group of people who have been gathering to protest what they see as a stolen presidential election say it won't be because of them.
Last weekend, approximately 200 people were arrested in Baton Rouge during protests surrounding the death of Alton Sterling, who was fatally shot by local police July 5.
Here’s the background: DeRay McKesson helped organize a protest in Baton Rouge in July of 2016 over the police killing of Alton Sterling. During the protest, an unidentified protestor threw a ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — Ava Kreutziger was in high school English class last year when she heard about the passage of legislation that could affect LGBTQ+ students like her. She excused herself from ...
Although racial tension in Baton Rouge was high, the boycott served as a template for prominent civil rights figures like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. in conceiving future protests.