The new Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit “The Trail They Blazed” got its start about a decade ago with an oral history ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.

Remembering Bishop Harold Perry, the first Black bishop in New Orleans and a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana ...