Shreveport became home to a General Motors assembly and stamping plant. The plant was producing the Chevrolet Colorado when ...

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson has died.

George B. Wheelock, the retired carriage manufacturer from Indiana who began Shreveport’s Factory movement, didn’t live to ...

The overall narrative portrayed begins with African Americans’ involvement in wartime before World War I through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy has claimed the maternal death rate in Louisiana isn’t as bad if you don’t count Black women.

Caroliner, Jackson’s father, later moved from South Carolina to Louisiana. It is not certain how Caroliner gained his freedom ...

Founded in 1837, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania was the first HBCU. Other private HBCUs established before the Civil War ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...