Click here to sign up! BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana House committee passed a bill Wednesday to preserve monuments and memorials, including those in honor of the Confederacy, across the state.

A new monument erected in a rural Louisiana town honors the Black residents ... called the “Colfax Riot,” which according to the sign was “the end of carpetbag misrule in the South.” ...

Black Louisiana veterans from freed slaves who fought for the Union during the Civil War to modern heroes who served in the Iraq War will be honored with their first monument in Veterans Memorial ...