OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 211
Fast facts! June 20 is world World Refugee Day. The observance was started in 2001 by the UN to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of...
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Jun 141 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 210
Well, we missed National Healthy Homes month this year (they moved the observance from June to April). However, the Dallas Housing Summit...
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Jun 71 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 209
"All is quiet on the western front", is not necessarily an adage many would consider applicable to 2024. But here we are in June and past...
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May 311 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 208
Since March 2020 during the Covid outbreak a rotating group of 400+ community leaders from the business, municipal, and nonprofit sectors...
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May 241 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 207
The quest for knowledge is not new. I mean, who doesn't want to know stuff?!?!? Discovery, necessity, mother of invention, and all have...
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May 171 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 206
Did you know? The first community land trust, New Communities was created in 1969 to support black farmers. Socially...
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May 101 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 205
May is a time for so many things – none more important than Mothers’ Day and Mental Health Awareness! Mothers’ Day is an international...
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May 31 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 204
Jiminy Cricket - we are speeding to the end of the school year! Prom Season is over. LEAP testing is underway. Last day of school and...
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Apr 261 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 203
Autism is not just one thing, one condition, or one set of behaviors. It is challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech...
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Apr 201 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 202
It seems like only yesterday that the CAFÉ coalition was jolted into action by the possibility that there would not be a summer EBT...
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Apr 121 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 201
In the ancient history I call my youth, I would sneak into clubs in The City and dance to artists like MC Hammer, When in Rome, and The...
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Apr 51 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 200
A wise man once said to me “we all we got!” That is never more true than when we look to the health of our community. Whether it is...
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Mar 291 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 199
The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a stark spotlight on the challenges faced by mom and pop shops. These small, independent businesses, often...
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Mar 221 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 198
Did you know that 2024 has seen some pretty amazing advances for women in Louisiana? The first woman took office as Attorney General The...
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Mar 151 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 197
Here we are in the year of Da'Vine Joy Randolf's 1st Oscar and 51 wins for her roll in Holdovers and women STILL make pittance compared...
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Mar 81 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 196
On Monday March 11, LaLeg kicks off the Regular Session. But they didn't just start working. When Gov. Jeff Landry was sworn in on...
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Mar 11 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 195
Since March 2020 during the Covid outbreak a rotating group of 400+ community leaders from the business, municipal, and nonprofit sectors...
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Feb 231 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 194
Stereotypes are a hard thing to surpass. Think lazy and shiftless to a brute who cannot be trusted around decent, respectable women or...
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Feb 161 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 193
Housing inequality and predatory lending under the guise of equity are nothing new. Pulitzer prize nominated and winning books have been...
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Feb 91 min read
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 192
It is not hyperbole to assert that being Black and/or poor should not be a death sentence. In the year of Tracy Chapman's Grammy, Black...
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