In this June 19, 2020 photo, members of RISE St. James pray over the graves of what are believed to be formerly enslaved Black people buried on the site of the former Buena Vista plantation. Formosa ...
Did Evelyn Duval, the wife of a Louisiana plantation owner, elope with a runaway slave in 1847? No, that's not true: This ...
Two Louisiana community groups claiming historic ties to the state's formerly enslaved population along the Mississippi River sued Wednesday for greater access to a plantation-era cemetery on the ...
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Lawsuit alleging environmental racism in Louisiana parish allowed to proceed, federal court says
A federal appeals court says a civil rights lawsuit against St. James Parish over alleged racial discrimination in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” can proceed. A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south ...
Astha Sharma Pokharel, an attorney for Mt. Triumph and Inclusive Louisiana, said that "clears the way for us to show to a ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward, a ...
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