Marianne Celeste Dragon Dimitry, a wealthy Creole land owner, posed for Louisiana’s first significant portrait painter, José ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — It’s a modern idea, coming from an order of nuns that was founded in 1842. Henriette Delille, a free woman of color in pre-Civil War New Orleans, started the Sisters of ...

By the early 1900s, women from New Orleans’ Red Light District, 7th Ward Creoles of color along with women of color throughout New Orleans found a unique way to express themselves. They were ...

Fidelity Bank P.O.W.E.R., which stands for "Potential Of Women Entrepreneurs Realized," is a program that empowers women ...