When Winston DeCuir Sr. graduated from LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center he was just the 18th Black student to earn a law degree from the flagship university—and one of just two Black students in his graduating class. This was 1975, mind you, not 1945 or, even, 1965. Yet, Baton Rouge, as recently as the

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