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Louisiana canceled a $3 billion coastline restoration plan on Thursday, July 17, citing costs and potential harm to the seafood industry.
Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ...
The Louisiana National Guard has returned the name Camp Beauregard to its military training center in Pineville, honoring a state militia veteran from the War of 1812 instead of the Confederate ...
Economist Michael Ash shares new data on racial disparities in the industry — a major purveyor of environmental racism.
On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, we’re still stubbornly in denial about our youth’s sins, writes rural researcher ...
Was Sally Miller a lost German immigrant or a brilliant woman who outsmarted the slavery system? This 180-year-old mystery still baffles historians today.
A Louisiana plantation-turned-resort burns, prompting a reckoning Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved.
A fire at the Nottoway Plantation has revived a conversation about how properties born from slavery should be viewed — and how they should function today.
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage ...
Louisiana authorities say the main building at a historic plantation is considered a total loss following a destructive fire.