Louisiana’s Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump’s attack on DEI. Unfortunately, ...
Whitney Planation received a letter dated April 8, 2025, claiming the grant it had already partially received would be pulled Due to President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ...
Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved. When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15, she felt ...
WALLACE — The Whitney Plantation tells the story of slavery, one building at a time. A church, a cabin, a jail. Soon, if executive director Ashley Rogers has her way, through the plantation store. On ...
Due to President Donald Trump's anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) push, federal funding has been pulled from Louisiana’s Whitney Plantation, a former plantation-turned-museum that teaches the ...