WALLACE, La. (AP) — Ceramic sculptures of hollow-eyed slave children haunt the Whitney Plantation, west of New Orleans, where owner John Cummings has infused the traditional antebellum plantation tour ...

There are a dozen restored antebellum mansions and plantations along the west bank of the Mississippi River, on the River Road outside of New Orleans, and they are among the most popular tourist day ...

Yes, Spirit. I’ll go …” recently arrived at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace. Created by Leia Lewis, an educator, artist and self-described “light-bringer” and “cultural architect,” ...

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — Recovery efforts are ongoing on the East bank and Westbank of St. John the Baptist parish. The Whitney Plantation Museum, located in Wallace on the Westbank, ...

Louisiana’s Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump’s attack on DEI. Unfortunately, ...

The board of directors running the Whitney Plantation announced its opposition to a $400 million, 56-silo grain terminal planned less than a mile from its museum Monday, citing concerns over air ...

A group of black medical students posed in front of the slave quarters on a Louisiana plantation for a powerful photo. Brian Washington Jr./Doyin Johnson WALLACE, Louisiana -- A group of black medical ...