Colfax, Grant Parish’s government seat, was the site of either a Reconstruction era “riot” or a “massacre” on and around Easter Sunday, 1873. The distinction makes a world of difference. Those who ...

The Colfax Massacre was the deadliest atrocity of the Reconstruction Era in the South. A new monument erected in a rural Louisiana town honors the Black residents killed in the 1873 Colfax Massacre, ...

WASHINGTON — The memorial dedicated by the white townspeople of Colfax, La., in 1921 was, at least, direct. Many Southern monuments to Confederate heroes erected in this era are made up only of an ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A dark day in Louisiana history had lasting effects on the nation’s delicate attempt to integrate newly freed enslaved Blacks into the fabric of the red, white, and blue.

Exactly 150 years after a violent massacre left dozens of Black people dead, the small Louisiana town where it happened is honoring its victims with a new memorial replacing a racist historical marker ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After a decade of selling ice cream with wacky toppings and in all kinds of shapes and sizes, Denver’s Ice Cream Riot, 1238 E. Colfax Ave., has announced ...

Denver has a wide range of ice cream shops, but one newer addition to the scene aims to bring something new. “We wanted to create an environment that’s a cross between how fun Dutch Brothers is and ...

COLFAX – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre sits next to the railroad tracks on Eighth Street, not far from where the atrocity took place on April 13, ...

COLFAX — Jesse McKinney was fixing a fence in the yard of his cabin near this central Louisiana town in early April 1873, when a group of White men rode up on horseback. The men surrounded McKinney, a ...

A new monument erected in a rural Louisiana town honors the Black residents killed in the 1873 Colfax Massacre, nola.com reports. The marker installed last week in Colfax arrived in time for the 150th ...