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.

Former Baton Rouge Mayor-President Melvin L. "Kip" Holden will be honored with a funeral service at Greater King David Baptist Church on May 22, and will lie in state at City Hall on 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 ...