Lewis’ roots in farming run deep. His grandfather, who was a sharecropper, bought the land that now sustains the family’s farm back in the 1950s and 60s.

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Shreveport Police Department's first Black detective Robert Henry Lewis died Feb. 1. This week, Mayor Arceneaux honored his ...