Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. pope, descends from Creole and free people of color in Louisiana, highlighting complex issues to ...

After his father died, Mark Charles Roudané, a retired Minnesota schoolteacher, began going through his dad’s papers. There were scores of binders, the records of a life as a prosperous, white, ...

In an interview with Louisiana Considered, Jari Honora, a family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, shares ...

A genealogist hopes when the pope will stop in New Orleans when he comes to the U.S.: "We have to have a second-line. We have ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued historians who began digging in the archives and discovered the ...

You might not put a lot of thought into what it takes to speak, but speaking keeps your brain busy. In every conversation, ...