As Americans celebrate Black History Month, Louisiana’s public school system and students can also celebrate having maybe the ...

Voters in Louisiana (2022) and California (2024) rejected an amendment to prevent involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes. The Case for Reparations Examining the role of slavery in building ...

After the cutters went on strike in 1887, the state militia and white vigilantes retaliated by killing about 60 suspected ...

It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...

Mother Henriette Delille founded the Sisters of the Holy Family, a U.S. congregation of black sisters that cared for the poor ...

Marqu – or Margru – was one of the three young girls who were aboard the Amistad. In her portrait, she gently smiles – a glint of a personality that’s persevered despite the trauma of the voyage and ...

Visit unexpected attractions and sites of Black culture in Boston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Memphis, New York, No. Carolina, Virginia and DC.

State prosecutors could seek a federal mandamus order to force New York officials turn over the indicted clinician.

21+. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. With its slick sports betting app and lucrative welcome offer, BetMGM burst onto the Louisiana sports betting scene in early 2022. The BetMGM sportsbook ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

Rose Nicaud was born into slavery in 1812. She was sold six times before she bought her own freedom at the age of 28. And that’s when she started selling coffee at her very own coffee stand in the ...