For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census records, Honora found. As part of the melting pot of French ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, Louisiana, records show.. ABC News has obtained several records, including ...

In 1830, for example, just over 1 percent of the free Black population were slaveholders, enslaving between 1 and 84 women and men. Eight of his Black forebears are known to have enslaved, in ...

Pope Leo XIV Has Haitian, Black Roots As Family Ties Traced Back To New Orleans. The new pope has Haitian blood, and his great-grandparents were listed through census records as 'free people of ...

Pope Leo XIV has Creole roots in New Orleans, 'a blessing' for the diaspora, advocate says The pope’s maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity of the Creole identity.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has Creole roots. That is raising awareness about the complexity of the Creole identity in America. Pope Leo's Creole heritage highlights history of ...

The Rev. Ajani Gibson, who heads the predominantly Black congregation at St. Peter Claver Church in New Orleans, said he sees the pope’s roots as a reaffirmation of African American influence on ...