Music
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet
Formed during the Cajun revival of the 1970s, BeauSoleil and its founder, fiddler Michael Doucet, are among Louisiana's most prominent ambassadors of Cajun music and culture.
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Architecture
Benjamin Buisson
Pierre Benjamin Buisson was a talented architect, engineer, surveyor, and publisher, was born in Paris, France, and migrated to New Orleans while in his early twenties where he advanced his career with work on major public buildings.
History
Benjamin Butler
Gen. Benjamin Butler's tenure as commander of the Union occupation forces in New Orleans in 1862 was so brutal that residents labeled him "Beast."
Music
Birdman
Bryan "Baby" Williams, more widely known by the stage name Birdman, is a Grammy-nominated rapper and record-label executive from New Orleans. Co-founder of the famed New Orleans recording company Cash Money Records.
Folklife
Blessings of the Fleet
At Boat Blessings, a Catholic priest blesses a community’s shrimp boats before the start of shrimp season
Literature
BLKARTSOUTH
Established in 1968 by writers Tom Dent and Kalamu ya Salaam, BLKARTSOUTH was a community writing and acting workshop that provided a forum for emerging black poets and playwrights to develop and showcase their work.
Architecture
Bloom's Arcade
Bloom's Arcade, one of Louisiana's first shopping centers, was built in Tallulah in 1930 and served as a centerpiece of the Madison Parish town’s business district for half a century.
Folklife
Blues Music
Of the 119 musicians inducted into the national Blues Hall of Fame, roughly twenty percent are from Louisiana.
Sports & Recreation
Bobby Brown
Tulane alumnus Bobby Brown played professional baseball with the New York Yankees and won four world championships.
Architecture
Bocage Plantation
Although Bocage's early history is hazy, local tradition has maintained that the house was built in 1801 by Emanuel Marius Pons Bringier as a wedding gift for his fourteen-year-old daughter, Françoise.
Government & Politics
Bourbon Louisiana
The policies and ambitions of Bourbon Democrats dominated Louisiana's political and social life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Geography
Bourbon Street
The origins of the notorious adult playground
