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We couldn't think of a better one. (Related: These British pubs serve food worth traveling for.) If you're planning to hike to The Old Forge, preparation is key. This is a remote and demanding ...
What’s less well known are the Pope’s Creole ties. In this week's episode, we hear how Catholics in Jackson, Mississippi, and New Orleans are reacting to the news, and we talk to the man who ...
It’s a fateful decision that leads to Culloden - the last major battle on British mainland soil. Jack Lowden presents the dramatic story of the rise and fall of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the ...
The old Creole song “Chère, mo lemmé toi” is a sweet love song, if a little dramatic. In English, the tune’s first verse ends simply as the singer says, “With all my heart, I love you ...
A photographer has published a book documenting a 6,835 mile (11,000km) walk around the entire coastline of mainland Britain. Quintin Lake, from Cheltenham, walked the route in chunks over five ...
Best Medicine will mark the seventh international adaptation of the British series, which has 'resonated worldwide with its humanity, originality and humour', according to President of Fox ...
America's most European city is buzzing over the news that the Catholic Church's new pope is not only from the U.S. but also has Haitian and Creole ancestors from New Orleans. While Pope Leo XIV ...
As part of the melting pot of French, Spanish, African and Native American cultures in Louisiana, the pope’s maternal ancestors would be considered Creole. “It was special for me because I ...
There’s a long-running joke within the Creole community in New Orleans that everyone is related. The election of an American pope is giving the joke a fresh spin, says Father Ajani Gibson of St ...
Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected on Thursday as the new pope, is descended from Creole people of colour from New Orleans.The pope's maternal grandparents, both of whom ...
First as the first U.S.-born pope — and second as the first pontiff with recent ancestors who were Creole people of color in New Orleans, something the new pope has never acknowledged publicly.