Meet the Founder
Melvin Lee Collins, Sr.
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The oldest black newspaper in Louisiana that is still in existence is the Shreveport Sun. The Sun was first published in Shreveport on November 6, 1920 by Melvin Lee Collins, Sr.
Collins received his college degree from Straight University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He came back to Shreveport to teach in the early 1900’s and became the first black teacher in Caddo Parish to hold an undergraduate degree in education. |
Meet the Team
The Shreveport Sun has been serving the black community of the Ark-La-Tex for nearly one-hundred years. Through the generations, the family has maintained the vision, rigorous expectations, demands, and dream of its founder, and all others who took his place through the years.
With a love for our community, and its awareness, a mission to keep the community informed, and the drive, and motivation to report to the community with the highest standards, experience, and journalistic integrity, above all else, we are honored to keep "The Old Man's" legacy alive, we hope, for generations to come!
We thank you for your continued support. Without you, we would never have made it!
With a love for our community, and its awareness, a mission to keep the community informed, and the drive, and motivation to report to the community with the highest standards, experience, and journalistic integrity, above all else, we are honored to keep "The Old Man's" legacy alive, we hope, for generations to come!
We thank you for your continued support. Without you, we would never have made it!
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Sonya Collins Landry, Editor
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Larry Rogers, Advertising/
Office Manager |
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Ronald A. Collins, Jr.,
Staff Writer/ Photographer/ Graphic Artist |
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Brenda Demming, Circulation Manager, Religious Editor
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Louise Smith, Advertising Sales
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Charles Harris, Sports Writer
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Marcinho Savant,
Digital Media Editor, Staff Writer |