The discovery that the first U.S.-born pope has black and Creole roots is a finding that illustrates the nation’s rich, ...

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Since news of the new pope, Robert Prevost, who assumed the name Leo XIV, hit the wires, he has been universally celebrated as being an American from Chicago.

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There’s no record the new pope ever identified as Black, and he may never have researched his family’s roots in New Orleans.

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