Lauren McCoy
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Lauren joined the FOX 8 team in April of 2022.
She lives in Slidell and graduated from Northshore High School and LSU.
After graduating from LSU, Lauren began her television career as a reporter at WVLA/WGMB in Baton Rouge. There, she worked her way up to the weekend anchor and eventually took over the weeknight anchor duties.
In 2019 Lauren left Baton Rouge for a tremendous opportunity with the Black News Channel in Tallahassee, FL co-anchoring the morning newscast. She also co-produced and hosted the talk show “Being a Woman”. In 2021 Lauren was promoted to the Headline Anchor position for the Atlanta, GA-based “Start Your Day” program, also a part of the Black News Channel.
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On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers told the last enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas that they were free.