A beloved New Orleans community garden is facing the wrecking ball after a Democratic lawmaker's real estate firm arranged its sale for a price critics say belongs in the 1960s. The controversy has ...

Jim Sohr was known to some as a devoted pool player who preferred Diet Coke over anything harder. He was known to others as a tireless artist, who produced a seemingly endless series of paintings that ...

When author Laura Lane McNeal embarked on her first novel, she chose 1960s New Orleans as the setting. “I was born in 1958, and my earliest childhood memories were of that time,” the New Orleans ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A retired teacher, who now lives in Fort Wayne, is still giving lessons through her new book. It chronicles the year she and her husband taught in New Orleans in the late ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First graders led the desegregation of New Orleans' public schools in November 1960. Bettmann via Getty Sixty-four years ago this ...