"From its founding in 1825, Jefferson Parish has grown from a small settlement along the Mississippi River to the second largest parish in Louisiana," Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng said ...
In a symbolic rebuke of the American South's racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life ... the bronze statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, splashed ...
Almost every day, another statue ... in New Orleans tore down a bust of slaveholder John McDonogh and pushed it into the Mississippi River. People took down one of Thomas Jefferson in Portland ...