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Guitarist and singer Walter “Wolfman” Washington prowled New Orleans stages for decades with his soulful voice, crisp guitar ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

Marsalis, himself a jazz trumpet icon, Irvine with a jazz ensemble and pianist Cecile Licad to play live as a silent film ...

Census data from 1900 shows Pope Leo XIV's grandparents lived on North Prieur Street where the Claiborne Overpass is now.

Robert Chiarito reported from New Lenox, Ill. Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected on Thursday as the new pope, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans.

CHICAGO -- Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New ...

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While Pope Leo XIV was born in ... his maternal great-grandmother was just a baby, she was baptized in 1840 at the city's iconic St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, the New Orleans Archdiocese ...

The revelation that Leo XIV has roots among New Orleans ... s great-great-grandfather. “In an instant, my identity shifted.” The news that Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal ...

Baquié's birth records show she was born in New Orleans. Despite Martinez being born abroad, his father -- the pope's great-grandfather -- was found to be from Louisiana, Smothers said ...

Although he was born and raised in ... but all four of his great-grandparents — the mother side and the father side — were from Louisiana, from New Orleans, in and around the 7th Ward.