Daniel Brook: 7:30 p.m., Allways Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave. The author launches "The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld ...

The revelation that Leo XIV has roots among New Orleans Creoles has stirred curiosity and joy about the first pope from the ...

(NEW YORK) — Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New ...

But in his scholarly and spirited “Two-Headed Doctor,” David Toop, a wide-ranging, contemplative English writer and musician with over a dozen books ... was an African/New Orleans/Congo ...

By Richard Fausset and Robert Chiarito Richard Fausset grew up in New Orleans and reports on ... will highlight the long history of Black Catholics, both free and enslaved, in this country ...

Lewis’s Dandy Lion showcases the “new dandy” and highlights ... who attended Ivy League schools, the book examines an era when wealthy, free Blacks held positions of power and had assimilate ...

“When he came to the balcony, I looked up, and I was like, ‘That dude looks like he could be my brother,’” said Ricard, a New Orleans Catholic ... the Civil War, free Black Americans ...

New Orleans as a Black city has, at various points throughout history, been foundational to preserving its widely recognized culture and traditions. From 1788 to 1830, its enslaved and free Black ...

But his lineage has deeper ties to the intricate fabric of the Black American South ... be traced back to the 1840s’ “free people of color” in New Orleans— a city with a significant ...

CHICAGO -- Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family ... to be a free person of color in New Orleans in that time really indicates that ...