OBERLIN, La. (NEXSTAR) – The board of a Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a Black sheriff’s deputy is holding an emergency meeting Thursday to remove a whites-only provision from its sales ...

A Louisiana cemetery changed certain provisions after rules prevented it from allowing a black family to purchase a burial plot for a relative in law enforcement. Allen Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Darrell ...

(CNN) — When Karla Semien went to a cemetery to pick out a plot where her late husband would be buried, it was as if she’d stepped back into the 1950’s. Her husband Darrell Semien, a sheriff’s deputy ...

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The board of a small Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a Black sheriff's deputy held an emergency meeting Thursday and removed a whites-only provision from its sales contracts. "When that ...

BATON ROUGE (WVUE) - Jessica Tilson spent many Sunday mornings in the early 1980s playing outside with her white friends under the shady oak trees in front of the fleur-de-lis stained glass windows of ...

A south Louisiana police department has launched an investigation after several headstones and urns were damaged or displaced at a cemetery over the weekend. In addition, some of the graves at Denham ...

A small Louisiana cemetery has changed its sales contracts after a Black sheriff's deputy was denied burial because of a provision that allowed only white people to be buried there. The board of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OBERLIN, La. (NEXSTAR) – The board of a ...

When Karla Semien went to a cemetery to pick out a plot where her late husband would be buried, it was as if she’d stepped back into the 1950’s. Her husband Darrell Semien, a sheriff’s deputy for ...