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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 ...
All eyes tend to fall on New Orleans, but there's another must-visit city that exudes the same European charn while fostering ...
Trump wants the U.S. to make more aluminum. In Louisiana, home to the only domestic producer of a material essential to that ...
(Louisiana First ... They describe the work assignment, active since 1893, as “modern-day slavery,” pointing to the fact that some inmates are paid as little as two cents per hour for ...
Louisiana inmates renew push for heat protections at Angola prison, call conditions ‘modern-day slavery’ House cancels rest of votes for week after GOP floor rebellion Athletics bat boy takes ...
When a Welsh slave owner risks losing her plantation, Annie knows things could get much worse for her and Cerys. Still, she endlessly sings the praises of the household, boasting about how they ...
Ireland never drank the dregs so deeply again as she had drunk them in the years before the Plantations. She “drank them and sucked them out”. Yes! these are tragic maps, those of Raven’s of ...
For a debut play, Azuka Oforka’s story about a Welsh-owned slave plantation in 1765 is remarkably assured. It’s bold in the way it successfully treats horrific subject matter with a mixture of ...
The plaintiffs, a group of Louisiana voters who identify as non-African American, say the map violates the Equal Protection Clause, which says you cannot use race as the primary factor in how district ...
Callais was heard before the Supreme Court. At the center of the debate is Louisiana's congressional district map, which now includes a sixth district stretching from Shreveport, roughly 250 miles ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The U.S. Supreme Court took up the legality of Louisiana’s new congressional map on Monday (March 24), and whatever the high court decides will have far-reaching implications.