BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - One Ascension Parish family is responsible for the first ever sugar cane planter. During this Black History month, the family is remembering their legacy. Hard work and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. DONALDSONVILLE, La (BRPROUD) — The Ascension ...

A vintage sugarcane planting machine — one of 154 made by the Louisianan whose invention ended cane-planting's back-breaking hand labor — has been brought back home to Ascension Parish, where it was ...

DONALDSONVILLE, La. (BRPROUD) – The River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville holds important pieces of Louisiana history. The organization maintains a former Rosenwald school and one of ...

One by one, members of the extended Leonard Julien Sr. family picked up the microphone to share stories of growing up in a large Modeste family. For Carlos Julien, the baby of the family of 11, life ...

The sugar cane area of the municipality of Othón P. Blanco reflects the results of decades of government policies that have privileged agriculture and livestock over jungles and forests. Starting in ...

Sugar cane planters may be able to use pesticides more safely, according to two studies published by Nicholls State University recently. Nicholls chemistry professor Darcey Wayment said adding ...