Keith Finley Archives

Robert Mann’s Kingfish U

The Black Panther Party briefly flourished in New Orleans as it brought a message of hope and upliftment to impoverished residents in the Ninth Ward.

Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first African American elected mayor of New Orleans, served two terms in office, from 1978 to 1986.

Earl Kemp Long served three nonconsecutive terms as Louisiana governor.

Democratic politician Edwin Washington Edwards cast a long shadow over the state's political history.

Louisiana entered the 1960s behind the national curve in postwar development but poised for dramatic progress.

Lynching, an extralegal method of maintaining racial boundaries (and terror), has a long, bloody history in Louisiana.

The war in Vietnam polarized the people of Louisiana just as it polarized people across the country.

Keith Finley