24. This is over a hundred years after it was written. Dédé was a New Orleans-born free creole of color, who composed music in the 1800s. He was born in 1827 and baptized in 1828, inside the St ...

The nine women of color, each wearing bright dresses and headpieces and some holding second-line umbrellas, had gotten together to practice a trio of traditional Creole songs ahead of the quickly ...

While tracing the origins of gumbo, Ken Wells stumbled upon what may be the long lost ingredient in early Cajun roux: bear ...

Shepard portrayed Mimi, the sister of Presley’s Danny Fisher, in the Michael Curtiz-directed King Creole (1958 ... Fitzgerald’s 1999 book, Westerns Women. But on their next movie, “He ...

Race relations and the fight for ethnic equality have been an ongoing pursuit since the birth of the nation. Every facet of ...

Black hair is political, and it has always been so in the United States of America. The history of Black hair in this country ...

The history of Black hair in this country is complex. Black women in politics represent the range of Black beauty on the national stage. This is something that was not always possible, thanks to ...

They were all women. They had never had children—by choice. They were also all women of color (they self-identified as Black, Latina, Mexican American, Asian American, Indian American ...

Placage was a time of year during the 18th and 19th centuries when wealthy men traveled to places like New Orleans to have their pick of the most beautiful women of color. The Feast of All Saints ...

Yet throughout her time in the woods, a trend has stood out. “I'm one of two women that I know that hunt,” Oldacre said. “And generally, I'm around a lot of men.” In Canton, Amanda Oldacre ...