The ''Monroe Free Press'' is a weekly
newspaper serving the
Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe (historically french: Poste-du-Ouachita) is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and parish seat of Ouachita Parish. With a 2020 census-tabulated population of 47,702, it is the principal city of the Monroe metropolita ...
,
El Dorado, Arkansas
El Dorado, founded by Matthew Rainey, is a city in, and the county seat of, Union County, on the southern border of Arkansas, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 18,884.
El Dorado is headquarters of the Ark ...
area. The ''Free Press'', established in 1969 by Roosevelt Wright, Jrl, is the larger of two weekly newspapers in Monroe serving the African-American community.
See also
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Monroe News Star'' — Monroe, Louisiana daily newspaper
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Ouachita Citizen'' — West Monroe, Louisiana weekly newspaper
External links
''Monroe Free Press'' online
Mass media in Monroe, Louisiana
Newspapers published in Louisiana
Weekly newspapers published in the United States
African-American newspapers
African Americans in Louisiana
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