We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel.

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

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

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

Street Museum exhibit will detail the history of Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, the first bank available to African Americans in Shreveport and one of the first banks of its kind in United ...

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

The team is now focusing on the history of the Cedar Grove neighborhood. In this, the first article in the series on Cedar Grove, Dr. Gary Joiner (Professor of History at LSU Shreveport) shows us how ...

Have you been told that Shreveport has never been as violent as it is now? Because such sentiments are not true. Shreveport ...

The Freedman’s Bank in Shreveport was the second location in Louisiana. And in case you are curious, the first Freedman’s Bank in the state was in New Orleans. The Shreveport location was one ...

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