Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards poses for photos with descendants of the principals in the Plessy V. Ferguson court case near a train behind the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts after a ceremony to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case which upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine that allowed for decades of segregationist laws against Black people, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kathleen Flynn
