Ferrara was elected alderman in Harahan in 1970, and served in that role until he was appointed interim mayor in 1980, a position he later won in a special election. He served off and on until 1994, ...

Sybil Haydel Morial is well known in the annals of New Orleans where her husband was the city’s first Black mayor.

Sybil Morial also became a city power player in her own right. She founded the Louisiana League of Good Government, which helped Black people register to vote at a time when they still had to pass ...

The life of Sybil Haydel Morial, an activist and university administrator who was the wife of one New Orleans mayor and the ...

Funeral arrangements have been set for a New Orleans activist and matriarch of one of the city's most iconic political ...

Susan Larson revisits her 2015 conversation with Sybil Haydel Morial on the publication of her memoir, Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment, Ms. Morial died September 4th. Also, ...