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
The Cool Head in the Room
Willie Landry Mount Receives the 2025 Chair’s Award for Institutional Support
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
Latest
Latest
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
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!
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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
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.
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
8.12 g. Great Flood of 1927
The Great Flood of 1927 inundated more than ten thousand square miles across twenty Louisiana parishes and left tens of thousands of Louisianans without shelter.
1.8 f. Tabasco Sauce
This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.
7.10 k. Shreve Town Company
The Shreve Town Company was a business venture that led to the establishment of what is today known as Shreveport, the largest city in northwest Louisiana.
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.
