The city's first Black mayor and three-term leader lay in state Wednesday, as Kip Holden's successors, loved ones and members ...

Kip Holden, the son of North Baton Rouge bar owners who became the city-parish's first black mayor-president, died Wednesday morning. Holden, who was 72, passed away at the Carpenter House ...

The Baton Rouge community is honoring the legacy of former Mayor Melvin Lee “Kip” Holden. Holden will lie in state at Baton Rouge City Hall from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21. ...

showed then-East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden awaiting the start of an on-camera TV interview in the outer part of his office. In the picture, Holden, who died Wednesday at 72 ...

A hotly contested campaign for the coveted seat of mayor-president of East Baton Rouge has pitted the current mayor-president, Melvin "Kip" Holden , against three challengers as they battle for a ...

Reporting from Baton Rouge, La. — From a distance ... That has always been Kip Holden’s talent — to make the crowded, messy integration of disparate elements look, from a distance, united.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The wife of former East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden confirmed he passed away early Wednesday morning at Carpenter House after ...

Long-time mayor-president of Baton Rouge Kip Holden has died. He was a New Orleans native who left his mark in the political realm in New Orleans. Long-time mayor-president of Baton Rouge Kip ...