Southern Screen is now accepting film submissions for the 2026 Southern Screen Festival, taking place November 19–22, 2026, in Lafayette.
Currently, the creative duo behind Makemade is trying to figure out how Ronnie Milsap's 1980 song is tied to this Louisiana ...
A documentary by a group of Acadiana natives on the history and culture of Zydeco music will be screened at a prestigious film festival in New Orleans this week.
Jimmy Kimmel joked that President Donald Trump would be mad that his wife, first lady Melania Trump, wasn't nominated for an Oscar for her documentary, but the reason why has nothing to do with the ...
The “Melania” documentary about first lady Melania Trump debuted at the top of Amazon Prime’s streaming charts after premiering earlier this week. The documentary, which follows 20 days in the first ...
Bernard LaFayette, a key early civil rights organizer who helped integrate lunch counters and public spaces in Nashville and across the South during the 1960s, died March 5. He was 85. LaFayette once ...
A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom struggle in the 1960s. By Clay Risen Bernard Lafayette Jr., a central figure ...
"He was one of the great teachers of nonviolence in our time," Martin Luther King III said of LaFayette. Bernard LaFayette, a key strategist in the Civil Rights Movement who laid the groundwork for ...
On a February morning in Lafayette, middle schoolers from Math, Science and Arts Academy West in Plaquemine wandered past fossils of mastodons and saber-toothed tigers at the University of Louisiana ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that ...
The value of life lies not in longevity, but in what people do to give it significance. Bernard LaFayette wrote that in his memoir as he reflected on the constant threat of death he and others faced ...