In the 1650s, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was on a mission to expand the British empire. Having completed the conquest of Ireland in 1653, he ...

After finishing third at districts, South Dade boys’ wrestling rebounded to win its 22nd region title. A girl qualified for state. Plus more region wrestling.

The Mary Elizabeth Porter Trust sold 5 Gadsdenboro St. Unit 409, The Gadsden to CO Real Estate Investors LLC for $1.2 million. Joseph P. Sgro, Betsy J. Joyce, and Natalie M. Sgro sold 82 Pitt St. to ...

The specific species cultivated there, Oryza glaberrima, is one of two domesticated strains of rice found on Earth. Africans ...

A home built with labor of enslaved people in 1859 will be rebuilt as an “exact” replica following its loss to an electrical ...

Explore Louisiana where every town tells a story, through music, food, culture and traditions that make the state truly ...

According to Whitney’s Director of Research, Dr. Ibrahima Seck, “We don’t just focus on deportation, hard labor, mistreatment, we go beyond all that to see how these people who were enslaved here and ...

A five-day itinerary through southern Louisiana threads across Cajun Country — a world of shadowy swamps, gothic beauty and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — It has been a little over nine months since the Nottoway Plantation suffered damage during a fire. What followed was devastation, sadness, backlash, and now a ...

Clementine Hunter holding her artwork. Hunter worked as a house worker at Melrose Plantation, where she started out quilting and doing other crafts before an artist visiting the property gave her ...

Louisiana had more Black soldiers fight for their freedom in the Union Army than any other state, so the Laura Plantation in St. James Parish is honoring them for Veterans Day, including nine soldiers ...

As a child growing up in South Louisiana, plantation home tours comprised family outings and school field trips. The tours were romanticized narratives of the Antebellum South, with visions of ...