"I’d never heard the accordion in the blues before," said Mick Jagger upon hearing zydeco music for the first time.

Less than 5% of the population of Guinea-Bissau speaks Portuguese, announced the Guinea-Bissau Minister of Education, Herry Mané, on Monday ...

Louisiana is a rich state of mixed-race people. Wendy A. Gaudin, a California native and descendant of Louisiana Creoles, ...

In interviews with the Globe, 10 Black mental health care providers, advocates, and public officials agreed several systemic ...

The Louisiana Creole is a Louisiana French ethnic group descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana during French and Spanish rule before becoming a part of the United States.

And when we say Creole of color, you know, first of all, the term Creole, Louisiana Creole, indicates nothing about race. There are white people who are Louisiana Creoles. ... HENDERSON: It sounds ...

But don't get it twisted. Honora explained that Creole is a culture. It's not a color. It's not an ethnicity or tied to the fineness of one's hair. "There are Black Creoles and White Creoles," he ...

The revelation that Leo XIV has roots among New Orleans Creoles has stirred curiosity and joy about the first pope from the United States. By Campbell Robertson Follow live updates on Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope Leo XIV’s grandparents on his mother’s side lived in New Orleans before they migrated to Chicago, where his mother, Mildred Martinez Prevost, was born in 1912, said Jari C. Honora, a ...

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he felt an instant kinship.

Pope Leo XIV’s unexpected New Orleans Creole background excites city’s large Catholic community By . Andy Rose, Taylor Romine and . ... Religion The Pope Race & ethnicity. See all topics.