The craniums of 19 Black Americans, whose heads were severed and sent to Germany for “research” in 1872, are being returned to New Orleans.

The annual Memorial Mass held Dec. 8 at Academy of Our Lady in Marrero remembered not only departed alumni, faculty and staff of the school, which was founded in 2007, ...

Early Monday morning, on May 19, the house of New Orleans Voodoo queen Marie Laveau went up in flames. The fire had broken out in the kitchen, and firefighters arrived on the scene around 4 a.m.