Swamp boat tours are such a fun thing to do in Louisiana, but if you really want to take your aquatic adventures to the next level, sign up for a Manchac Swamp Kayak Tour. Paddling through the Manchac ...

For enslaved people in the Americas, the holiday season was a time of both rare festivity and calculated resistance.

The Descendants Project was established by Joy and her twin sister and co-founder, Dr. Jo Banner, to safeguard the Black descendant community in Louisiana’s River Parishes, also said they worked with ...

But the headline act was not the ship, it was the Mississippi itself. Dubbed “the great artery of America” by Civil War ...

The story showcases a slave, who flees from a plantation in Louisiana after being whipped in his life. The Oscar-winning actor believed it was the most difficult film of his career. Will told ...

Shreveport is older than Caddo Parish, which was created on January 18, 1838. The very first sheriff of Caddo Parish was Alexander Boyd Sterrett, the husband of Martha Bowie Sterrett.

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

The land in Louisiana’s River Parishes is populated ... In 2018, Shell Convent memorialized the Bruslie Plantation and Monroe Plantation cemeteries, which had been found on its property.

Louisiana's prison system routinely holds ... The site was once the Angola Plantations, a slave plantation owned by Isaac Franklin and named after Angola, the country of origin for many of the ...