COLFAX, La. – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre sits next to the railroad tracks on Eighth Street, not far from where the atrocity took place on ...

A new monument erected in a rural Louisiana town honors the Black residents killed in the 1873 Colfax Massacre, nola.com reports. The marker installed last week in Colfax arrived in time for the ...

COLFAX, La. — Exactly 150 years after a rampaging White mob slaughtered dozens of Black men in this tiny Grant Parish town, in the bloodiest single-day racial massacre in the Reconstruction-era ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (WNTZ) – 150 Easter celebrations ago (1873), what’s known as “the bloodiest day” of Reconstruction took place in Colfax, La. Being well acquainted with the brutality of ...

COLFAX, La. (WVUE) - A new memorial recently was unveiled in the small, Grant Parish town of Colfax. It marks a racial massacre that occurred there on Easter Sunday in 1873, in which nearly 100 ...

As late as 1950, the Louisiana Department of Commerce and Industry erected a historical marker at the courthouse in Colfax that read, “On this site occurred the Colfax Riot in which three white ...

According to the Smithsonian Magazine, the Colfax Massacre happened in Colfax, Louisiana, on April 13, 1872, when an armed group of white supremacists attacked a courthouse guarded by a mostly ...

COLFAX, La. (KALB) - Louisiana Mudfest’s annual Trucks Gone Wild officially went into full throttle on Thursday, April 24. The four-day event typically draws thousands of fans to Colfax.