32. The Shreveport Sun - 2224 Jewella

Founded in 1920, the Shreveport Sun offices were once located in the heart of the Avenue business district. It is the oldest weekly newspaper for African Americans in Louisiana, and has served as the voice of black Shreveport for over eighty years.

Region 2

• Home Page
• Regional News
• Other Regions
• Southeastern Indian Basketry Database
• Research Projects
  • Smith Island: A Plantation in Rural Natchitoches Parish
  • The Mexican Community of Forest Hill, Louisiana
  • Reconnecting the Present to the Past: The Caddo People Return to the Lower Red River Valley
  • Civil War to Civil Rights: The African American Community in Natchitoches, Louisiana
  • The Talimali Band of Apalachee
  • Stokes Folk House Inventory
  • African American Shreveport-Bossier Tour
  • Southeastern Basketry Gathering
  • McNeill Street Pumping Station
  • Cane River Creole Community
  • St. Augustine Catholic Church 200th Anniversary and All Saints Day
  • Choctaw Split Cane Basketry
  • Making Tamales
  • Riding Clubs
  • Snell Slideshow

• Online Resources
• Louisiana Folk Artists
• State Use Database

Contact

• Shane Rasmussen, Ph.D.
• 213 Kyser Hall, NSU
• Natchitoches, LA 71497
• (318) 357-4332
• (318) 357-4331 fax
• folklife@nsula.edu
• Mailing Address
• NSU Box 3663
• Natchitoches, LA 71497