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The Architect of Gay New Orleans
Albert J. Carey (1939–2026) from “outlaw to icon”
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The Queen Brown Sugar Festival
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What Endures
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The Architect of Gay New Orleans
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The Queen Brown Sugar Festival
How Iberia Parish’s Black community transformed exclusion into celebration
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What Endures
Shrimp and Petroleum’s legacy on the Atchafalaya
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Second Sight
Poets Darrell Bourque and Peter Cooley write through vision loss
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Institute Releases Timeline Resource for Classrooms
What was Louisiana Doing while America was becoming America?
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64 Parishes Wins Multiple 2026 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
Read our winning stories
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64 Parishes Finalist for Multiple 2026 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
64 Parishes Magazine has received four 2026 Excellence in Journalism Award nominations, including for Best Magazine
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64 Parishes Story Finalist for National Award
"King of Olympus" by Robert W. Fieseler received a nomination for a GLAAD Media Award, the most visible & prestigious awards for LGBTQ+ media
Encyclopedia
Disasters
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana and the subsequent levee failures resulted in one of the worst disasters in United States history.
Folklife
Crawfish Boils
Crawfish boils are a springtime ritual in Louisiana.
Folklife
Blessings of the Fleet
At Boat Blessings, a Catholic priest blesses a community’s shrimp boats before the start of shrimp season
History
Sophie B. Wright
A New Orleans educator and civic activist who embodied the complexities and racialized limits of white southern Progressivism.
K-12 Resources
1.8 b. Cajun Music
Louisiana’s Cajun music has been influenced by a rich blend of musical traditions.
8.17 c. Hurricane Rita
A Category 3 hurricane, Hurricane Rita made landfall twenty-six days after Hurricane Katrina.
7.13 d. Siege of Port Hudson
The capture of Port Hudson in Louisiana gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River and was a significant turning point in the Civil War.
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.
