The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New ...

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

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Peacock, a history professor and director of the Creole Heritage Center at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. There wasn’t “a full acceptance” of free mixed race people, he said ...

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

Records obtained by the New York Times found that Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans, Louisiana. His maternal grandparents lived in ...

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 ...

Since 2014, the shantyboat has traveled more than 2,600 miles, gathering river histories for a public archive.

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It seemed like an appropriate time to visit Nottoway, which in many ways is emblematic of how some want to whitewash ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...