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

The service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Greater King David Baptist Church, 222 Blount Road in Baton Rouge.

The wife of former East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden confirmed he passed away early Wednesday morning at Carpenter House after a lengthy illness. He was 72. Holden, an ...

The Baton Rouge community is honoring the legacy of former Mayor Melvin Lee “Kip” Holden. Holden will lie in state at ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Funeral services have been announced for former East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Family confirmed former East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden died on Wednesday morning, May 14. He was 72. Holden was born and raised in Baton Rouge. He was a graduate ...

Suge Knight, the former CEO of Death Row Records, suggested Tuesday that President Trump could pardon Sean “Diddy” Combs if the rapper is convicted in his ongoing federal sex trafficking and ...