One of the African dancers was doing Larakaraka from the Acholi, people in Uganda and some parts of South Sudan. It happens ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who ...

The moral sentiment about reparations rests on these centuries of unfairness. Since at least 1865, when Congress voted to set ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...

Police brutality and corruption are painful realities. So are officers who die honorably performing their duty. But the ...

The chains were invisible, but they effectively disenfranchised the descendants of enslaved African Americans or Negros — in ...

Heritage meets gumption at the Costume Institute’s big spring exhibition, where pathbreaking pieces join anonymous garments ...

As the conflict in the hit film ‘Sinners’ unfolds, it deftly interrogates the role of religion within the Black community.

The next time you pass by Maplewood Cemetery, you’re likely to notice benches around the property inviting you to sit and ...

Right now the law says that if 20% of your neighbors don’t like what you’re doing they can force the city council to a super ...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its annual list of the country’s “most endangered historic places,” ...

The bill passed a Senate committee vote April 29 and will proceed to the full Senate. Caddo Commissioner Roy Burrell's ...