Vendors are welcome to participate in the 2025 MLK Family Day Celebration, providing a great opportunity to boost exposure and start the New Year. To secure your spot, please call 337-491-9955 or 337-405-8181, and we will email you a registration form. This year, you can also pay for your booth or food truck using Zelle by scanning the provided code. Please see the flyer below for more details.
Here are a few photos of the 2025 MLK Essay Contest Writers… Continue Reading
KZWA 104.9 presents the 2025 MLK ANNUAL CELEBRATION-MLK 2025 is gearing up to leave a lasting impact, and family, friends, and supporters are invited to be a part of a wonderful celebration. This year’s event is shaping up to be one of the most exciting yet.KZWA 104.9… Continue Reading
Lake Charles, I know many of you remember the Annual Gumbo Cook-off that Mrs. Blackwell had every year a the MLK Family Day Festival, well its BACK! Get in where you fit in! It’s going to be the best. Call Antonio Duhon at 337-429-0422 or reach out to us at KZWA 104.9 337-491-9955 for details!…… Continue Reading
Tekashi 6ix9ine could be released from prison by the end of the day (Wednesday). Judge Paul Engelmayer says he’s “inclined” to offer compassionate relief to the Brooklyn rapper. Inner City Press reports that the Bureau of Prisons denied 6ix9ine’s release earlier this week, but a second appeal attempt looks more promising. The court has asked the government to respond by…… Continue Reading
A record number of Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to a new Labor Department report released today. From March 21st through the 28th, 6.6 million out-of-work Americans filed for unemployment. That’s twice the amount of the previous week’s record-breaking number of 3.3 million and more that what most analysts had predicted. In…… Continue Reading
Our prayers have been answered — Rihanna says she’s “very aggressively working on music.” Fans have been hounding her for the follow-up to 2016’s Anti for years. And though she’s hard at work, she adds, “I can’t say when I’m going to drop.” The vision for R9 is unclear. “There are no rules. There’s no format. There’s just good music, and if…… Continue Reading
R. Kelly’s latest get-out-of-jail scheme is a doozy. He’s cooked up a plan to go from jailbird to mallrat in no time flat. The disgraced singer’s legal team has been making Hail Mary attempts for at least a couple of weeks. The argument is, Kells, like basically everyone else locked up, is at a higher…… Continue Reading
Jay-Z and Rihanna are both stepping up big time in the fight against the coronavirus. The Shawn Carter Foundation and the Clara Lionel Foundation will chip in $1 million each towards COVID-19 response efforts. The money will “support undocumented workers, the children of frontline health workers and first responders, and incarcerated, elderly and homeless populations in New York…… Continue Reading
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo announced this morning that he has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. The 49-year-old host of Cuomo Prime Time, and younger brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, tweeted, “In these difficult times that seem to get more difficult and complicated by the day, I just found out that I am positive for coronavirus.” He continued, “I…… Continue Reading