When news broke that Pope Leo XIV had Black and Creole ancestry, the internet practically collapsed. How could this white man be so ... She first learned of her Black roots in 1937, according ...

The results were announced with white smoke ... and Spanish roots. According to the U.S. Census, Prevost's mother, the late Mildred Martinez, was the mixed-race daughter of Black property owners ...

The BriefJune is Black Music Month.Tampa Bay has some amazing musical connections to Black music history."Central Avenue was ...

Interestingly, while Pope Leo XIV’s mother, Mildred Martinez Prevost, is listed as white on her birth ... confirmed the family’s Haitian roots and connections to New Orleans.