Street Museum exhibit will detail the history of Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, the first bank available to African Americans in Shreveport and one of the first banks of its kind in United ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Donald Trump is not asking the Federal Reserve to lower its short-term interest rates, ...

The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President Donald Trump was just a year o ...

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

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

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

New Orleans is a city known for its incredible food; and for those lucky enough to be in town on Feb. 9 for Super Bowl LIX, ...

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

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 ...

Trump's policy appears to clash with the 14th Amendment to the Constitution approved in 1868, stating "All persons born or ...

Here is our only interaction with human life.”   Cedar Annenkovna reaches through the 12-inch slot on the cell door. The steel bars reach well above her head and anchor into a cement block in the ...