Louisiana is best known as the home of New Orleans, but this "city of lights" offers its own historic southern flavor to ...

The French Market District celebrated the 39th annual Creole Tomato Festival, where farmers gathered to showcase their best ...

Creole Culture Day is back for its 23rd year at Vermilionville, packed with music, food, and stories that highlight the ...

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

As the first Catholic pope from the United States, Pope Leo XIV has an ancestry that traces back to the Creole and free people of color from Louisiana, illustrating complex and interconnected ...

“We are enthusiastic that the research into Pope Leo XIV’s ancestry is shedding light on the complex history of the Louisiana Creole people and the meaning of the term ‘Creole’ itself ...

define “Creole” in the traditional sense: people who were native to Louisiana, who were Roman Catholic and spoke French/French Creole, no matter their race.) Families could be categorized ...

The new leader of the Catholic Church has a distinction that goes beyond being the first pope from the United States.

People from New Orleans moved north to Chicago, or west to Los Angeles, where Louisiana transplants built up a vibrant neighborhood of Creole restaurants and Creole-majority Catholic churches.

They lived on North Prieur Street, just north of the French Quarter, a neighborhood considered the cradle of Louisiana’s Creole people of color. Joseph N. Martinez was recorded as a Black man ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the next pope, is partially descended from Creole people of color, according to Jari C. Honora, a noted genealogist and ...