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The American Red Cross has open emergency shelters across Louisiana to assist those affected by ongoing floods. More than 650 people spent Friday night in Red Cross and community shelters in Louisiana. The threat of more rain and flooding is expected...

Even after the abolition of slavery in 1865, America’s blacks were trapped. Nothing was equal. Whites had. Blacks had not. No more vivid picture of the murderous racism that lay in the USA’s heart is there than blacks being lynched by white mobs. ...

In this Dec. 11, 2015 photo, Barbara Hicks Collins talks of her upbringing, in her childhood home, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in honor of her father, civil rights activist Robert Hicks, in Bogalusa, La. The home was both...

BOGALUSA, La. (AP) — The knock on the door, strong and quick, jolted Barbara Hicks Collins awake. Someone must be in trouble, she thought. She flung open her front door to the shocking sight of her car engulfed in flames. Investigators later determined...

(RNS) For weeks leading up to the March on Washington, the Rev. Perry Smith urged his congregation to join the landmark civil rights event happening a few miles away. A stirring climax to ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington...