WALLACE, Louisiana — Every year, thousands of people visit the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, to learn about the history of slavery in the state and around the country. Starting in January ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services said the grant highlighting Black history and culture “no longer serves the ...

Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter never imagined the humble “markings” she created on cardboard, canvas, and wood would one day sell at auctions for thousands of dollars.

A federal appeals court says a civil rights lawsuit against St. James Parish over alleged racial discrimination in ...

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Whenever a major film production shoots in Louisiana, it’s a bonanza for local actors in front of the cameras, as well as ...

Many of the petrochemical facilities in Louisiana are built on former plantations, and few of the burial sites of the enslaved have been preserved. “I think it’s a real vindication of their ...

All eyes tend to fall on New Orleans, but there's another must-visit city that exudes the same European charn while fostering ...

It’s hard to imagine that anyone could suggest that the great state of Louisiana was soft on crime. In an America that sets the world standard for locking up its own citizens, the Bayou State somehow ...

In Louisiana, home to the only domestic producer ... as “Cancer Alley,” an industrial corridor once home to slave plantations and now the site of large petrochemical facilities that ...