LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – A new gun law Governor Jeff Landry passed back in March of this year, goes into effect in two days and students and university police react to the new law and it’s regulation. Although no longer requiring concealed carry permits, there are still exceptions where places such as federal buildings, churches […]
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — No one apparently thought much about the man living in his white, windowless van with a flatbed trailer hitched to it that was parked near Tractor Supply Co. off of Indiana 38. The store’s employees told investigators that he didn’t bother anyone, wasn’t untidy, so they let him be. No harm, no […]
Editor’s note: To celebrate Black History Month, the Journal & Courier is featuring daily briefs about prominent Black community members in Tippecanoe County. LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In 1866, a year after the end of the Civil War, the Lafayette African Methodist Episcopal congregation considered digging a basement under their deteriorating Cincinnati Street Church because the […]
In 1881, a spokesman for the African American community called Daniel Brown “a pioneer of the colored people in Lafayette.” Brown and his family settled in Lafayette in the 1830s. Born in Maryland in 1796, Brown worked as a white washer, laborer and sexton at St. John’s Episcopal Church. In the 1890s, older members of […]
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Lafayette pioneer community offered its small African American population unskilled work as cooks, whitewashers and laborers. Enterprising individuals, however, thwarted 19th-century expectations and prejudices. Several ads published in the City of Lafayette’s 1893 directory. In 1846, the Lafayette census listed only one white barber, but by 1850 sixteen Black barbers controlled […]
Dec. 30—The Lafayette poet laureate program, designed to help promote literacy, poetry and artistry in the community, is mounting a search for the next person to carry on its mission Z, whose stage name is ZBass Speaks and uses they/them pronouns, is wrapping up their two-year term as the Lafayette’s poet laureate — but wants […]