 BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer The rich earth along the Mississippi River hasn't forgotten its past. The land was home to some of Louisiana's largest plantations, where thousands of enslaved people toiled and died. Most were buried in unmarked or poorly marked graves. Now that same land is the site of many major industrial projects. And those projects keep encountering potential burial grounds. This is a deep dive into how the projects dredged up a dark part of our state's history.
Don't make a Twitter bet you don't want to cash. Watching LSU's soon-to-be championship women's basketball team, a Chicago radio host — like everybody else — took note of coach Kim Mulkey's garish pink feather jacket. He tweeted that he'd wear the jacket to a Cubs game if he got 5,000 likes. The Tigers won, he got his 5,000 likes, and the designer took him up on the bet. Here are photos from his fabulous trip to Wrigley Field.
Don Lemon has been fired from CNN. The longtime anchor, who grew up in the Baton Rouge area, tweeted yesterday morning that he had been blindsided by the decision, though the network disputed that. Here's the drama over his departure, which happened the same day that Fox News fired Tucker Carlson. | 
