This is the grave of William C.C. Claiborne. Born in Virginia somewhere between 1773 and 1775, though in fact we don't know, Claiborne grew up wealthy. He went to the College of William & Mary and then moved to New York in 1789, at that...
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This is the grave of Allen Ellender. Born in 1890 in Montegut (what a name!), Louisiana, Ellender grew up in a Catholic family, went to Catholic schools, and then St..
Jeff Landry's 11 Commandments have another key message to them--"fuck the poor." I think that is the original Hebrew. Gov. Jeff Landry cut $1 million in state funding from the largest.
This is the grave of Francis Nicholls. Born in 1834 in Donaldsville, Louisiana, Nicholls grew up in a wealthy Louisiana slaveholding family, part of the plantation class that had transformed that state since the American occupation of it in 1803. Nicholls' family was not part...
You know how serious Jeff Landry and the Louisiana legislature is by reading their bill requiring the displaying of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. See, they listed the Commandments in.
This is the grave of Russell Long. Born in 1918 in Shreveport, Louisiana....well, I hardly have to tell you that Russell Long was the son of Huey. Can you imagine.
The Louisiana legislature, truly run by rogues, has decided to allow children the freedom to work without BIG GOVERNMENT mandated lunch breaks. A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits...
Of of course this goes public the week before I go on my long-awaited presentation at the Organization of American Historians in New Orleans/Louisiana grave trip. This criminal defamation bill.
Jeff Landry is a complete scumbag, but even hard-right Republicans can realize that jungle primaries are terrible and should be eliminated. Deeper within this article about Louisiana finally acquiescing to.
Good ol'Louisiana..... There is some nonsense going on in Caddo Parish (Shreveport), Louisiana. Black man and white man run against each other for sheriff. Black man wins by 1 vote. He's the first Black sheriff elected in this majority-Black parish. There's a recount, as you'd...
This is a couple weeks old now, but a commenter brought it up the other day and I thought it deserved some attention. Louisiana managed, like Kentucky is now, to.
On November 22, 1919, a white supremacist terrorist organization called the Self-Preservation and Loyalty League murdered four union leaders organizing both white and Black workers at a sawmill in Bogalusa,.