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Advocates for coastal culture plan for Louisiana’s coming population shifts
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Making Room
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"Sarcasm of Fate”
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Where the Fire Started
Remembering Southern University’s Black Poetry Festival 1972–1980
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Pressing Vinyl and Shattering Glass
The female-run record company that changed the soundscape of 1950s Shreveport
Winter 2024
Revolutionary Rhythms
"Baba" Luther Gray’s Sacred Activism and Music
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Winter Issue Publication Party in Lake Charles December 5
Join us on Thursday, December 5, in Lake Charles to celebrate the release of 64 Parishes’ winter 2024 issue!
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64 Parishes Story Receives Top Regional Journalism Award
“A Bar Called Charlene’s” by Robert Fieseler was honored with the Green Eyeshade Award, the top honor distributed by Southerners from the Society for Professional Journalists
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64 Parishes Contributors Are Finalists for Nine 2024 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
64 Parishes magazine has received nine 2024 Excellence in Journalism award nominations, including Best Magazine, from the Press Club of New Orleans.
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Alexandra Kennon Shahin Joins 64 Parishes as New Managing Editor
Alexandra Kennon Shahin has joined the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities as Managing Editor of 64 Parishes.
Encyclopedia
Sports & Recreation
New Orleans Saints
When it was aired, the New Orleans Saints Super Bowl victory in 2010 was the most-watched television broadcast in history, drawing more than 153 million viewers.
Architecture
A. Hays Town
A talented and prolific Louisiana architect, A. Hays Town shaped the residential architecture in mid-to late twentieth-century Louisiana.
Archaeology
Poverty Point
Poverty Point in Louisiana, one of the most significant archaeological sites in in the world, dates to 3,500 years and represents the largest, most complex settlement of its kind in North America.
Government, Politics & Law
Oscar Dunn
Oscar James Dunn became one of the first Black men to serve in an executive political position in the United States when he was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana in 1868.
K-12 Resources
7.14 d. White League
A paramilitary organization aligned with the Democratic Party, the White League played a central role in the overthrow of Republican rule and intimidation of African Americans in Louisiana during Reconstruction.
8.17 c. Cheniere Caminada Hurricane
More than two thousand people across South Louisiana lost their lives in the Cheniere Caminada Hurricane, making it one of Louisiana’s deadliest storms.
8.9. d. Populism
In the late 1800s Americans witnessed a period of rapid industrialization and political transformation that drew some Louisianans to the Populist movement.
6.8 a.-b., 6.9 g.-h. Houma Nation
In the eighteenth century Houma people established trade and political relationships with French and Spanish colonists. In the twentieth century Houmas unified their community and successfully struggled for political recognition.
