Summer 2025
A Life Behind the Lens
Pableaux Johnson (1966-2025) is the 2025 Documentary Photographer of the Year
Current Issue
Inspiring Shared Purpose
Current Issue
For the Love of Cats and Dogs
Current Issue
A Life Behind the Lens
Magazine
Summer 2025
Inspiring Shared Purpose
Norman C. Francis is the 2025 Humanist of the Year
Summer 2025
For the Love of Cats and Dogs
Remembering the efforts to rescue and reunite pets with their owners post-Katrina, twenty years later
Summer 2025
Ancestral Artistry
The 2025 Documentary Film of the Year spotlights Black master artisans’ contributions to Louisiana architecture
Latest
Latest
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!
Latest
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
Latest
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.
Latest
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
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 d. New State Capitol
The current Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest capitol building in the United States.
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. Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana
The Chitimacha Tribe is the only federally recognized tribe in Louisiana to still occupy part of its ancestral territory.
8.15 e. Baton Rouge Bus Boycott
The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of June 1953 lasted eight days and became a model for organizers of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott.
