Louisiana is a rich state of mixed-race people. Wendy A. Gaudin, a California native and descendant of Louisiana Creoles, ...

In its earliest usage in colonial Louisiana, Creole — créole in French or criollo in Spanish — referred to any person born in the Americas of European or African ancestry. Over time, that ...

The first year of Gov. Jeff Landry’s term brought sweeping changes to Louisiana aimed at spurring economic growth and to ...

In Louisiana, there's so much history and culture to explore, especially in these seven offbeat towns. Find out why World ...

On a bright and humid afternoon in early May, Louisiana musicians gathered on the barn-like Fais Do-Do stage at the New ...

Dr. Kent Peacock, director of the Creole Heritage Center, said, “Our goal was to give teachers a better understanding of who are Louisiana Creoles and their vibrant heritage so they feel ...

In "Alisa Banks: Unerased," the Dallas, Texas-based artist explores her Louisiana Creole heritage and the African diaspora. About 50 to 55 mixed-media pieces will include drawings, fibers ...

While a finite answer is still quite ambiguous, Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color aims to delineate some of the misconceptions about the Creole people of ...

Pope Leo XIV's Creole Heritage Highlights Complex History of Racism and the Church in America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New ...

Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans. Jari Honora, a historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum in the French Quarter, began ...

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

Black and Creole Catholics in the U.S. say that a pope who holds these multiple identities is just what the Catholic Church needs to unify the global church and elevate the profile of Black ...