New Orleans Civil Rights icon Jerome "Big Duck" Smith died after his battle with a lengthy illness, his family members ...

A national bus tour commemorating the 1961 Freedom Ride is due to arrive Wednesday in New Orleans. Why it matters: The event ...

Smith joined the Freedom Rides, challenged segregation across the South and spent decades mentoring generations of young people in New Orleans.

Multiple generations of Black civil rights activists have gathered at Xavier University to honor Freedom Riders who completed a disrupted bus journey from Washington D.C. to New Orleans ...

LIVE AT ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ALYSSA GOMEZ, WDSU NEWS SOME SAD NEWS TO PASS ALONG TODAY AT FOUR. KEY MATRIARCH OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN NEW ORLEANS HAS DIED. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT ...

New Orleanians on Friday filed into Gallier Hall to remember the life of Dorothy Prevost, the parent of one of four Black girls who became the first to desegregate all-White public elementary schools ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — New Orleans civil rights icon Jerome "Big Duck" Smith died after his battle with a lengthy illness, his ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Civil rights icon Jerome “Big Duck” Smith, who dedicated his life to fighting segregation in the South and other inequalities, is being remembered as the city begins official ...