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, ...

Abduction of Slaves from Louisiana. Share full article. Oct. 11, 1856. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 11, 1856, Page 3 Buy Reprints.

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 ...

Slaves became fluent, ... In 1921 Louisiana’s government decreed that English alone be taught in schools. Pupils who spoke Kouri-Vini or French were made to kneel on rice and beaten.

Louisiana lawmakers have sent a bill to the state’s governor that would require online platforms to obtain a parent’s consent before creating an account for users under 18, the latest in a ...

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 ...

On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the death penalty from being ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a ...

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 ...

Crews continued to douse water onto Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation on Friday morning, May 16, after a devastating fire decimated the historic mansion. First responders from various agencies ...

Louisiana widow Olivia Hayes recounts the death of her husband and discusses the teenage Air Force recruit that was allegedly killed by a migrant during Memorial Day weekend on ‘Fox & Friends ...