The Cajun people, originally from Eastern Canada and known as Acadians, immigrated to the Southeastern United States in the 1700s. Modern-day Creole people are descendants of colonial French ...

Both cuisines use a roux, or combination of fat and flour, in dishes like gumbo. However, Creole roux is made with butter and flour, as it is in France, while a Cajun roux is typically made with oil ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected on Thursday as the new pope, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans.

The CHC notes Creole people share a history of “resilience in the face of enslavement, racial discrimination and pressures to assimilate culturally.” What do we know about the pope’s ancestry?

An evolving term. In 18th- and 19th-century Louisiana, that more inclusive definition was the most accepted. White people with recent European ancestry were just as likely to call themselves ...

Today, Creole can refer to people and languages in Louisiana, Haiti and other Caribbean Islands, Africa, Brazil, the Indian Ocean and beyond. In 2015 in Lafayette and the surrounding area, Creole ...

Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans. Jari Honora, a historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum in the French Quarter, began ...

Black and Creole people defined New Orleans cuisine, but Black chefs don’t get top jobs. Nation May 24, 2022 06:35 PM EST By — Roby Chavez. By — Diane Lincoln Estes. Transcript ...

Black and Creole people defined New Orleans cuisine, but Black chefs don’t get top jobs May 24, 2022 6:35 PM EDT ...