64 Parishes

Rediscovering Audley Moore

New Iberia’s forgotten Queen Mother

A Studio of One’s Own

The Joan Mitchell Center’s decade-long impact on New Orleans artists

Born from a Duel

A history of the Bowie & other knives in Louisiana

From City Park Stadium to the Arena, via Venus and Mars

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

64 Parishes Winter Publication Party in Ruston

Join us on December 4 in Ruston to celebrate the release of 64 Parishes’ winter 2025 issue

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

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

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana and the subsequent levee failures resulted in one of the worst disasters in United States history.

Crawfish Boils

Crawfish boils are a springtime ritual in Louisiana.

Blessings of the Fleet

At Boat Blessings, a Catholic priest blesses a community’s shrimp boats before the start of shrimp season

Sophie B. Wright

A New Orleans educator and civic activist who embodied the complexities and racialized limits of white southern Progressivism.

8.15 d. Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges, along with Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost, was one of the first Black students to desegregate an all-white public school in New Orleans.

8.8 c. Madam C. J. Walker

Born in Delta, Louisiana, in 1867, hair care and cosmetics mogul Madam C. J. Walker was the first African American millionaire.

6.8 a.-b., 6.9 g.-h. Natchez Indians

Both French and British colonists sought alliances with the Natchez Indians, an American Indian group with settlements along the Lower Mississippi River.

6.9 h., 6.10 a.–b. Natchez Revolt of 1729

When forced by a French commander to leave their village, Natchez men responded by attacking the French settlement of Fort Rosalie.