(Sabrina Canfield/Courthouse News) NEW ORLEANS (CN) — It's been more than 120 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established the “separate but equal” doctrine that began segregation in ...

Marianne Celeste Dragon Dimitry, a wealthy Creole land owner, posed for Louisiana’s first significant portrait painter, José ...

Her ancestors include French colonists from Acadia and Afro-Creole individuals ... with backgrounds in sugar plantation ownership and mixed-race heritage. Speculation about the new album ...