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NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says he will issue a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, who was arrested in 1892 for challenging a ban on Black people sitting in "whites-only" train cars, on Wednesday. Plessy, a Creole man, was arrested ...

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state Board of Pardon voted unanimously on Friday to clear the ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) slammed any discussion of pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell on Sunday after President Donald Trump left the door open to a possible pardon. Trump on Friday did not rule out a possible pardon for Maxwell, who is serving a 20 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial segregation sparked the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cemented ...