A Louisiana plantation has new owners ... The Banner sisters can trace their ancestors to people enslaved at Whitney Plantation, Laura Plantation and others in the river parishes.
Some plantations in the South are finally dropping the hoop skirts and mint juleps and telling a different story — from the perspective of those who were enslaved.
White Coats, a group birthed out of a photo-op on a Louisiana plantation, seeks to get more Black students in medical schools ...