Spring 2015
About Our Cover
- “A Conversation with Cokie Roberts” by David Johnson
- “Passion Play” photo essay by Deborah Luster
- “The Up Stairs Lounge Arson” by Clayton Delery-Edwards
- “Delta Pieces: Northeast Louisiana Folklife” by Susan Roach
- The Tidelands Dispute by Leslie Alexander
- Queen Sugar fiction by Natalie Baszile
Contents
The Far-Reaching Legacy of Lead Belly
A Conversation with Cokie Roberts
When Humans Were Chattel
Departments
The current issue of 64 Parishes is available for $6.95 plus tax and a $5 shipping and handling fee. Back issues of 64 Parishes and Louisiana Cultural Vistas are available for $7.95 plus tax and a $5 shipping and handling fee. Note that supplies are limited on some issues. To order call 504-523-4352 or email [email protected].
Articles
Spring 2015
A Conversation with Cokie Roberts
In 2015 the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities honored broadcast and print journalist and author Cokie Roberts as Humanist of the Year.
The Far-Reaching Legacy of Lead Belly
Magazine
The Tidelands Dispute
Louisiana and the federal government have been engaged in a decades-long contentious debate over who shares royalty payments from the mineral-rich submerged lands of the Gulf of Mexico
Spring 2015
When Humans Were Chattel
The Purchased Lives exhibition surveys the brutal business of the domestic slave trade and one of its biggest hubs, New Orleans
Spring 2015
Schools of Nursing
Buildings that served as training centers for nurses conveyed an impression of order and discipline
