Events
Leonard Smith III
Feature
In ‘A Place Called Desire,’ Leonard Smith III captures New Orleans history
Genealogist Leonard Smith III has been bridging the gap between Louisiana’s past and present. Smith is a prolific film producer from New Orleans who has created an immense body of work reflecting the misrepresented and […]
Education
Historic Tangipahoa Parish Training School–nation’s first vocational school for Blacks–to be auctioned
KENTWOOD, La–The Tangipahoa Parish desegregation lawsuit, filed over 51 years ago in the federal courts in New Orleans, has still not been resolved. In 1911, the Tangipahoa Parish Training School opened as the first Black […]