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Joy and Jo Banner and their cousin, Stephenie Aubert, left to right, stand at center, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2024, flanked by the Banner sisters' parents, William and Harriet Banner, on the left ,…

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A look from a cooking area inside a slave cabin at Laura Plantation in Vacherie on Friday, Aug. 8, 2024, toward another slave cabin the background. Amid growing acknowledgement of the role of …

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Traffic passes Friday, Aug. 8, 2024, on River Road in St. John the Baptist Parish in front of the proposed site of the now tabled Greenfield grain elevator in the community of Wallace. In a su…

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Built in the early 1800s, likely by Senegalese slaves, the Laura Plantation manor house was located in the middle what was once a Colapissa Indian village along the west bank of the Mississipp…