A special screening of the award-winning documentary "Ancestral Artistry: The Influence of Africans & Creoles of Color on ...

From the darkness of history they emerge out of a silver spinning disc: two black slaves sold by a sugar plantation owner named Levi Foster on Feb. 11, 1818, to his in-laws. The first slave, ...

Valuation of Real and Personal Estate in Louisiana. Slaves Worth Nearly the Value of All Other Property Put Together. Share full article. Aug. 2, 1862.

BATON ROUGE — Breakfast at Louisiana’s state Capitol includes fresh coffee, cookies and egg sandwiches — made and served in part by incarcerated people working for no pay. “They force us ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we review the biggest news in the Acadiana region. We also hear about the Louisiana health department’s controversial new vaccine policy, and how many Black ...

Descendants of Louisiana slaves on Tuesday sued their local government over a land use policy they said has led to a concentration of polluting petrochemical plants in predominantly Black ...

Louisiana: Hoodoo & voodoo, ghosts & graves. The ancestral home of Native American tribes; a sanctuary for French-speaking outcasts; and a former shelter for runaway slaves — Louisiana's famous ...