It's *** continuing process even 20 years later as the Army Corps of Engineers, state and federal leaders try to protect the greater New Orleans area. The New Orleans Levee Protection System was ...

"It's a city that enjoys life," said Robert Florence, who, like many others taken by New Orleans, first went there to be playwright and author. He added: "It's a city that lives for the moment.

Here’s how 10 violent New Orleans inmates escaped jail — after leaving taunting graffiti for cops New Orleans jail employee accused of helping 10 violent inmates escape launches wild ...

Although he was born and raised in Chicago, research shows Leo XIV’s ancestry can be traced ... were from Louisiana, from New Orleans, in and around the 7th Ward. And when we say Creole of ...

In partnership with the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission and the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office, The 18th Ward, a pay-what-you-can sports club, will bring baseball ...

Then we find out his family is from here, and from the 1900 block of Prieur Street in the 7th Ward,” Morial said. “That’s Black New Orleans.” For Kenitha Grooms-Williams, executive ...

America's most European city is buzzing over the news that the Catholic Church's new pope is not only from the U.S. but also has Haitian and Creole ancestors from New Orleans. While Pope Leo XIV ...

Baquie though was born here. The 1900 U.S. Census shows Joseph and Louise living in New Orleans’ 7th Ward with two children. Both were recorded as Black in the 1900 census. However, a 1910 ...

The first American pope, Pope Leo XIV's ancestry reveals that he may ... his family was building a life in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, an area that once buzzed with Black-owned businesses ...

The Census record shows the couple as living in New Orleans’ 7th Ward, historically a melting pot of cultures in the Crescent City. Honora also shared a marriage certificate for Mildred’s ...

NEW ORLEANS — Pope Leo XIV made history as the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church — and now, there’s a Louisiana connection that’s making headlines. The newly elected pontiff ...

The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection. Family historian Jari Honora ...