Slavery and racism casts a long shadow over ... senior director for philanthropy and community investment at the Louisiana ACLU, told The Independent. “It’s what is owed to Black people ...

Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...

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Here is a part of their story of triumph in the face of adversity in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Newton “Newt” Smith was born into slavery on the McCain ...

“During the colonial period the term was used to designate people of Spanish or French descent born in Louisiana. But as those people interacted with each other and with the slave population, that ...

The westward expansion carried slavery down into the Southwest, into Mississippi, Alabama, crossing the Mississippi River into Louisiana. Finally, by the 1840's, it was pouring into Texas.

(Louisiana First ... They describe the work assignment, active since 1893, as “modern-day slavery,” pointing to the fact that some inmates are paid as little as two cents per hour for ...