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...

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...

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...

Food is such an integral part of life! It’s not just that it keeps us alive, but that in many ways, food facilitates living. But...

It's the start of the last month of the year so this Friday we are kicking off Wellness Month by sharing tips and tricks to get through...

It's the start of the last month of the year so this Friday we are kicking off Wellness Month by sharing tips and tricks to get through...

Thanksgiving is next week. November is almost over. And 2024 is right around the corner. But before we go too far, we are going to take a...

Every year the results come out and they seem to be getting no better. Louisiana is 5th in heart disease, 10th in cancer, 3rd in strokes,...

Some numbers to keep in mind. 36. 4. 1. 36: In October 36% of Louisiana residents showed up to cast a vote in the Gubernatorial...

OneRouge Fam, we have been talking about broadband and access for a while now. You might have made it to our call on what it is and why...

There are a lot of scary things going on in October. Halloween. State elections. Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, and Uranus are all in...

Have you been to one of our Transportation and Mobility Coalition meetings? Admittedly, most of the time we talk alternatives to driving...

Now that climate change is real, there are a lot of weird things that are happening. One of them is drought in South Louisiana where we...

Statistics are interesting things. We know that between 2010 and 2020, the Hispanic population in EBR specifically grew 88%. But did we...