[4] Louisiana Public Broadcasting aired a segment on the newspaper in its Folks series April 16, 1989.
News and sports editor Andrew Harris was interviewed for it.
[5] It was founded and published by Melvin Lee Collins Sr.[6] He was a community leader[7] and high school principal.
[11] In 1958, the Sun's reporting as well as other newspaper accounts of NAACP and its Louisiana leader R. L. Williams was submitted in a legal filing accusing the group's ogleganizing of being illegal in the state.
It also reported on displacement of African American educators who lost their positions with desegregation.