As the first Catholic pope from the United States, Pope Leo XIV has an ancestry that traces back to the Creole and free people of color from Louisiana, illustrating complex and interconnected issues ...

Foreword / Clifton Carmon -- Ch. 1. Origins and Early Development -- Ch. 2. Roots, Trunks, and Branches -- Ch. 3. Antebellum Economic, Social, and Legal Realities ...

NEW ORLEANS—Clint Bruce is a historian, and literary researcher with a specialty in French writing. Along with The Historic New Orleans Collection and Loyola University Sociologist Dr. Angel Adams ...

Origins of New Orleans's free Creoles of color / Kimberly S. Hanger -- The free Creoles of color of the antebellum gulf ports of Mobile and Pensacola : a struggle for the middle ground / Virginia ...

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 is not only the first American to serve as Bishop of Rome, the City of New Orleans notes he also has "Creole of color roots" in NOLA. The big picture: The 69-year-old newly elected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The St. Louis Cathedral echoed with the music of Edmond Dédé Friday, Jan. 24. This is over a hundred years ...

St. Louis cemetery No. 1, just outside the French Quarter and bounded on the north by Treme Street, on the south by Basin, on the east by St. Louis and on the west by Conti. Across Basin Street to the ...

It’s impossible to tell from the sidewalk how large the North Johnson Street house really is. But the Creole cottage that Pearce Williams and Heath Allbritton share with their son, Oscar, 9, feels ...

It is a handsome two-level tomb for the family of Wharton Collens. Not far away is a row of tombs that Save Our Cemeteries restored. Curious about the use of color, I inquire of Wilson, who refers me ...