Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Prevost has made history as the first U.S.-born pope elected to lead the Vatican. Now known as Pope Leo XIV, he also has ...

Genealogists and family members of Pope Leo XIV have revealed that the newly named pope, the first-ever American pontiff of the Catholic Church, has direct ties to New Orleans' 7th Ward and the city's ...

As an elementary school student at St. Alphonsus in New Orleans' Irish Channel, Jari Honora was fascinated with history and learning about his family lineage. His grandmother, Jo Ann Duncan, reared ...

Last week came news that lit up my family group text: The new Pope, Leo XIV, the cleric formerly known as Robert Francis Prevost, is, like me, descended from a long line of Catholic Creoles. It is a ...

NEW ORLEANS — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the Big ...

On many weekends in rural Louisiana, Black cowboys get together for trail rides. These rides are an expression of family, tradition and Creole culture. BBC reporter Anna Adams spent a day riding with ...

Too black to be white and too white to be black -- We got the hang of it -- The moment you're a Creole, it was la même chose -- We couldn't sit in the front -- She never went outside one day to work - ...

LAFAYETTE, La.–Maison Creole de Freetown is the city’s only African American Museum focusing on Black History and resides in ...