A new monument erected in a rural Louisiana town honors the Black residents killed in the 1873 Colfax Massacre, nola.com reports. The marker installed last week in Colfax arrived in time for the ...

Under a cloudy April sky, Gov. John Bel Edwards and historian Charles Lane, who wrote a book about the massacre, praised the new monument's unveiling as another step in the journey of honestly ...

(Julie O’Donoghue/Louisiana Illuminator) Louisiana has erected a new monument to Black military service members in the state’s Veterans Memorial Park adjacent to the State Capitol. Unveiled ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A new monument at the State Capitol will honor African American veterans from Louisiana and the contributions made to protect our state and nation. Governor John Bel ...

Black Louisiana veterans from freed slaves who fought for the Union during the Civil War to modern heroes who served in the Iraq War will be honored with their first monument in Veterans Memorial ...

But while Louisiana has drawn national attention by ... 2,000-pound red granite monument bearing Ten Commandments to the Oklahoma State Capitol “as a symbol of its historic significance for ...

Ground was broken today on the first first African American Veterans Monument in the Louisiana Veterans Memorial Park. The Monument will be the first of its kind on the State Capitol Complex.

Workers remove a monument bearing the Ten Commandments outside West Union High School, June 9, 2003, in West Union, Ohio. Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments ...

That monument, erected in 1921 ... Faimon Roberts III covers rural communities in Louisiana. His work is supported by a reporting grant from the Microsoft Journalism Initiative and is administered ...