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Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear what the loss of the Nottoway Plantation House means to descendants of people enslaved ...
Jo Banner, a co-founder of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit organization that focuses on eradicating the legacies of ...
It seemed like an appropriate time to visit Nottoway, which in many ways is emblematic of how some want to whitewash ...
Nearly a dozen fire departments responded to extinguish the flames engulfing the pre-Civil War Nottoway Plantation House in ...
The Redwood Baptist Church was first organized in 1857 by slaves, according to the church's pastor. Following the Nottoway fire this month, he reflected on the way slaves are contextualized in ...
Investigators still don’t know exactly what sparked the fire that destroyed a historic Louisiana plantation mansion earlier ...
Over on the west bank of the Mississippi atop a sugarcane field sat this southern mansion. The hard work of enslaved peoples ...
The founder of a ghost touring company received death threats after people on the internet blamed an allegedly possessed doll ...
An investigation at the Nottoway Plantation by the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has wrapped up.
As Black and Indigenous stories are being banned and censored, the burning of Nottoway exposes what America still protects, ...
The Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office (SFM) has ended its investigation into the fire of the Nottoway Plantation.
Was it arson or an accident? Experts just wrapped the scene investigation at Nottoway Plantation—now the wait begins.