Leaders with Homer Plessy Community Schools and NOLA Public Schools announced Tuesday that the elementary school will now be permanently located at the McKenna building at 1651 N. Tonti St.

It's been nearly a year since Homer Plessy Community School was forced to move out of its historic but aging building in the French Quarter, uprooting the Vieux Carre's last ...

According to Plessy Schools CEO, the school will relocate to the Leah McKenna School on Tonti Street for the 2023-24 school year.

Homer Plessy School was set to relocate to the Seventh Ward for the next school year following concerns from the NOLA Public Schools superintendent about the facility.

If Homer Plessy moves from the "Little Red Schoolhouse" to the Bywater, the French Quarter would lose its last school.

Keith Plessy, Phoebe Ferguson and Kate Dillingham took a moment together earlier this week to contemplate their ancestors’ legacies after […] The post Descendants of Plessy v. Ferguson actors ...

Nearly 130 years later, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy.

Homer Plessy lent his name to one of the most infamous decisions in Supreme Court history, which found “Jim Crow” laws segregating public accommodations to be constitutional.

Homer Plessy, the Louisiana man whose Supreme Court loss set the template for Jim Crow laws in the early 1900s, was posthumously pardoned Wednesday. Plessy, a Black man, intentionally boarded a ...

On June 7, 1892, shoe maker Homer Plessy boarded a first-class train car designated as whites-only in New Orleans. His subsequent arrest was an act meant to challenge the Separate Car Act of ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards formally pardons Homer Plessy during a ceremony at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022.