The quest for knowledge is not new. I mean, who doesn't want to know stuff?!?!? Discovery, necessity, mother of invention, and all have...

Did you know? The first community land trust, New Communities was created in 1969 to support black farmers. Socially...

May is a time for so many things – none more important than Mothers’ Day and Mental Health Awareness! Mothers’ Day is an international...

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...

Autism is not just one thing, one condition, or one set of behaviors. It is challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech...

It seems like only yesterday that the CAFÉ coalition was jolted into action by the possibility that there would not be a summer EBT...

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...

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...

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a stark spotlight on the challenges faced by mom and pop shops. These small, independent businesses, often...

Did you know that 2024 has seen some pretty amazing advances for women in Louisiana? The first woman took office as Attorney General The...

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...

Since March 2020 during the Covid outbreak a rotating group of 400+ community leaders from the business, municipal, and nonprofit sectors...

Stereotypes are a hard thing to surpass. Think lazy and shiftless to a brute who cannot be trusted around decent, respectable women or...

Housing inequality and predatory lending under the guise of equity are nothing new. Pulitzer prize nominated and winning books have been...

Fun facts, useful for trivia nights... Despite all the rigamarole around freedom and one man, one voice, newly established Americans did...

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is supposed to be a movement "to transform society into a more just place." It was a direct...

The Capital Area Food Equity (CAFÉ) Coalition is OneRouge's first anti-poverty coalition to stand up. The reason was (and remains) that...

Back when COVID hit, the brokenness of the collective systems we use daily were laid bare. The most shocking was how tenuous our food...

Welcome to 2024! And welcome back to One Rouge Fridays. It's hard to believe that in March we will hit 4 years of OneRouge calls! If you...

Did you know that stress responses occur in stages on the “continuum of behavioral and emotional responses”? The CDC says there are 4...