Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

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

In an interview with Louisiana Considered, Jari Honora, a family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, shares ...

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued historians who began digging in the archives and discovered the ...

A genealogist hopes when the pope will stop in New Orleans when he comes to the U.S.: "We have to have a second-line. We have ...

The genealogical findings underline the significance of Pope Leo XIV being not only the first pope from the United States, but also being the first with documented ancestral ties to Louisiana’s ...

Catholics in Louisiana are celebrating Pope Leo XIV's Creole roots, revealed through 19th-century census records. The records ...

Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been named the ...

To the shock of many, the new Pope is not only the first Pope from the United States, but the Pope has Haitian and Creole ancestry as well. Those facts are just some of what we learned as we try to ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about the new pope’s Creole heritage and family ties to New Orleans. We also learn ...

Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, famously stated that although she has a mother who identifies as a Black woman, she had never been treated like a Black woman. That held until she ...