Known as the Thompson Sisters, Alice, Jean and Shirley were on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. They ...

Dozens of protesters gathered outside of the Hale Boggs Federal Building on Monday (June 23) to express opposition to the ...

For many of these communities, disaster strikes twice: first from the storm, and again from the systems meant to help them ...

A new law gives economic development officials more power to change the state’s film tax credit program. A law enacting new ...

Bartholomew was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991; the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998; and the Louisiana ...

When Jemima Joél Brady thinks of growing up in Algiers, she remembers neighborhood kids wearing bright yellow polos and ...

With a “creamy” soprano opera voice, Annabelle Bernard broke racial barriers at home and abroad during her career that ...

Some Republicans are treating Sen. Bill Cassidy’s engagement with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposals as a ...

On Thursday, many in New Orleans will be celebrating the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth, which was recognized as a federal ...

In November 1960, three 6-year-old Black girls climbed 18 steps into history, forever changing the face of American education ...