64 Parishes

Inspiring Shared Purpose

Norman C. Francis is the 2025 Humanist of the Year

A Life Behind the Lens

Pableaux Johnson (1966-2025) is the 2025 Documentary Photographer of the Year

For the Love of Cats and Dogs

Remembering the efforts to rescue and reunite pets with their owners post-Katrina, twenty years later

Ancestral Artistry

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

7.10 j., l. Urban Slavery in Antebellum Louisiana

Enslaved people in Louisiana’s cities were engaged in nearly every labor role, from domestic service to dentistry.

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.

6.10 d. Alejandro O'Reilly

Alejandro O’Reilly served as the second Spanish governor of Louisiana from 1769 to 1770.

7.14 d. Colfax Massacre

In 1873 white Louisianans responded to Reconstruction policies with violence, resulting in a massacre that claimed as many as 150 lives.