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 ...

Officials reported no injuries, though one Louisiana fire marshal said it was ... “It stood as both a cautionary monument and a testament to the importance of preserving history — even ...

BANKS in Western Louisiana. Such are the strange and unnatural ... Persons familiar with Canal-street, New-Orleans, will remember the imposing monument, erected at the junction of St. Charles ...

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 ...

The Nottoway Plantation House, a sprawling mansion on a former Louisiana sugar plantation, was "the South's largest remaining antebellum mansion." ...

The mansion's owner, Louisiana attorney Dan Dyess ... "It stood as both a cautionary monument and a testament to the importance of preserving history — even the painful parts — so that ...

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 ...

Louisiana summer: How high are temperatures ... The Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, established by President George W. Bush in 2009, lies around 750 miles west of Hawaii.

Louisiana will now require the Ten Commandments ... Perry in 2005, when the Supreme Court upheld a monument, Ten Commandments monument, in the state House park, they think, well, that reasoning ...

Louisiana public schools and colleges will ... MORE: Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs bill to create 'monument to the unborn' on ...