As National DNA Day approaches on April 25, the New Orleans Public Library’s City Archives and Special Collections (CA&SC) hosts its free annual Genealogy Festival on April 5. The Black Wall ...

In an interview with Louisiana Considered, Jari Honora, a family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, shares what he uncovered about the pope’s Louisiana lineage.

The JH Hospitality group opened Touche French Creole in April at 6 N. River St., one of a trio of restaurants it has opened in the historic Hobbs Building.

Pope Leo XIV has Creole roots in New Orleans, 'a blessing' for the diaspora, advocate says The pope’s maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry ...

The archdiocese of New Orleans unearthed records documenting the marriage of her parents in 1864, and the baptism of her mother — one of the pope’s great-grandmothers — in 1840 at St. Louis ...

New Orleans Creole and civil rights attorney Alexander Pierre “A.P.” Tureaud spoke on the phenomenon. He recalled that there were Creoles who were “too dark to be white in New Orleans ...