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An Ambassador of Louisiana’s French Music
Michael Doucet is the 2026 Humanist of the Year
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An Ambassador of Louisiana’s French Music
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Back in “the Fun Shop”
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A New Beginning on the Land
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Back in “the Fun Shop”
Two magicians made a Halloween store Shreveport’s secret Gay Pride headquarters
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A New Beginning on the Land
Black farmers & the Louisiana Delta Project
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The “Pink Menace”
Excerpt from Café Lafitte in Exile: Queer New Orleans and the Story of America’s Oldest Gay Bar
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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
Events
64 Parishes Winter Publication Party in Ruston
Join us on December 4 in Ruston to celebrate the release of 64 Parishes’ winter 2025 issue
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64 Parishes Has Eight Finalists for 2025 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
64 Parishes Magazine has received eight 2025 Excellence in Journalism award nominations across seven categories, including Best Magazine, from the Press Club of New Orleans
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
6.9 e., 6.10 b., d., e. Free People of Color in Colonial Louisiana
In colonial Louisiana free people of color developed thriving communities and had access to privileges that enslaved people did not.
7.9 d, 7.10 m. Free People of Color from the Early American Period through the Civil War
After the Louisiana Purchase, lawmakers passed numerous restrictions against free people of color, though they still experienced some economic gains and opportunities.
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.
6.11 j. Bernardo de Gálvez
Bernardo de Gálvez, the fourth governor of Spanish Louisiana, is best known for leading Louisiana militia troops against the British during the American Revolution.
