Black women’s hair has always been a civil rights issue. Anti-Black hair sentiment in the US reaches back to the 18th century when, for example, free Creole women of color in New Orleans wore coifs ...

Pope Leo XIV, 69, is the first-ever American-born pontiff Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven years. TIZIANA FABI/AFP via ...

People of color in Louisiana / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Marcus Christian's treatment of Les gens de couleur libre / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Plaçage and the Louisiana Gens de couleur libre : how ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the next pope, is partially descended from Creole people of color, according to Jari C. Honora, a noted genealogist and historian ...

That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has brought joy to some Catholics. By John Eligon When Pope Leo XIV emerged on ...