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Reader-Supported Journalism about Louisiana, the Land and Her People. Est. 2017

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We share the stories of Louisiana

The Bayou Brief's Compendium on Race, Power, and Louisiana History.

Note: This will be periodically updated. Preface During the past three...

Breaking Tony’s Spell

There is at least one positive to the sudden celebrity of a renegade Pentecostal pastor: It’s exposed the man as the criminal fraudster he had been all along.

The Other General

William Tecumseh Sherman was the school's first superintendent, but "the father of LSU" was a Virginia-born aristocrat who moved to Rapides Parish, earned a fortune through his cotton plantation, and then lost almost everything during the Civil War.