Louisiana has a fascinating and storied history, and there's always something new to learn about that history at places like museums. It can also be said that Louisiana has an air of mystery, and that ...

In 2014 the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public as the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery. Visitors are taken back through time with hundreds of first-person ...

“3 Generations Strong!” the Housewife captioned one of the posts. The pictures showed the women posing together at the Whitney Plantation museum in Wallace, Louisiana, where Gizelle’s enslaved ...

The Whitney Plantation will host its third annual Juneteenth Freedom Festival — a full-day celebration centered on culture, community, and the legacy of Black resilience.The free, family-friendly ...

Kati Weis is a Murrow Award-winning reporter for CBS News based in New Orleans, covering the Southeast. She previously worked as an investigative reporter at CBS News Colorado in their Denver newsroom ...

Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved. When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15, she felt ...

When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15, she felt a surge of energy in her body as she recognized why the name was so familiar. Her father’s ...

A fire that ravaged Nottoway Plantation, one of the Deep South's largest pre-Civil War mansions, sparked a wave of mixed reactions online, ranging from jubilation to dismay. The Louisiana landmark, ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...