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Her beat goes on
Vickie Casanova-Willis with a photo of her aunt, Laurabeth Henderson Hicks By Sara Bongiorni Laurabeth Henderson Hicks, PhD, spent her elementary years inside a segregated, one-room school in Depressionera Las […]
Lakes project shows how Foundation selects civic initiatives
By Bill Balhoff, Foundation board chair Seeing is believing. Like the blossoming of some great, repellent flower, a months-old algae bloom has left no room for doubt: The time to […]
No 1 in this, too
By Sara Bongiorni Dr. Neil Johannsen, LSU Kinesiology, and Shelly Mullenix, LSU Athletics Department . / Photo by Tim Mueller LSU collaborates with Pennington to change sports science. That teamwork […]
Foundation Finances 101
John Davies and Debbie Pickell To some, The Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s finances can be confounding. To answer some of the questions about our finances, Currents sat down with John […]
Currents Q1 2020
Currents Q1 2020
2020 Annual Report
2020 Annual Report
Neighborhood, radically reimagined
By Maggie Heyn Richardson J Daniels, CEO of East Baton Rouge Parish Housing Authority | Photo by Tim Mueller A $29.5 million grant brings the principles of New Urbanism to […]
On a good note
Symphony’s executive director brings energy and ideas to new post By Maggie Heyn Richardson BR Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Eric Marshall | Photo by Tim Mueller Austin, Texas, is known […]
Q&A: Kinder Baumgardner, Baton Rouge lakes lead planner
Kinder Baumgardner Last week, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that a coalition of state, local and university officials has been formed to save the six lakes surrounding the LSU campus. […]
An Interview with the late Ernest J. Gaines from 2007
Ernest J. Gaines died Nov. 5, 2019, in Oscar, Louisiana. He was born into a family that picked cotton on land along False River. He became among the greatest writers […]