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The Remembrance ceremony was sponsored by the U.S. Grant Camp No. 68 Sons of Union veterans of the Civil War.

The WSU Retiree Center is pleased to announce the “Abolitionists, Underground Railroad, Freedmens Bureau: The Winona Connection” Senior University course begins on Tuesday, November 1. The class will run for

The Office of Governor John Bel Edwards, putting Louisiana first..

During Channel 4s Britains Secret War Babies, Mary Phillips, from Wales, told her daughters how she had suffered from racist abuse as a child growing up in the UK.

Attending the ceremony was Gov. John Bel Edwards, the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, the Louisiana House and Senate Select Committees on Veterans Affairs, military and local officials.

Memorial Day more than a three day weekend

For nine months during the Civil War, a regiment of Black soldiers guarded confederate prisoners on what is now the Rock Island Arsenal. For the past 30 years, Rock Island’s Shellie Moore Guy has been researching and accumulating history on those soldiers.

America’s grim chapter of slavery began in 1619 in Hampton, where more than 20 enslaved Africans were traded to settlers in exchange for supplies.

Out of the 16 Medals of Honor awarded to African Americans during the Civil War, 14 soldiers earned them right here.

Out of the 16 Medals of Honor awarded to African Americans during the Civil War, 14 soldiers earned them right here.