Anders died on Friday, May 31 at his home in Spanish Town. Born in Natchez, Mississippi, he and his family moved to Baton Rouge when he was 8. He wrote over 12,500 columns, inviting readers to be a ...

When The Advocate decided to host a limerick competition in memory of longtime columnist Smiley Anders — who died in May after more than 50 years of writing for the paper — we knew readers would be ...

With advanced stage COPD, Smiley stopped coming to the newsroom on March 13, 2020 — the day the pandemic began in earnest in the United States. From that day forward, his desk, which was situated ...