Tag: Creole
Homer Plessy, key to ‘separate but equal,’ on road to pardon
By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only" railroad car to...
Gullah Geechee Nation Strives To Survive
Descendants of African slaves along the southeast U.S. coast battle climate change, gentrification and cultural assimilation.
By Kevin Michael Briscoe
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Among the more...