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
6.8 a.-b., 6.9 g.-h., 6.10 a.-c. Early Exploration and Colonization
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, several expeditions explored the area that would later become known as Louisiana.
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.
1.8 d. Cabildo
This historic building in New Orleans has played an important role in Louisiana’s government and is now a museum.
7.14 f. Oscar Dunn
Oscar James Dunn became one of the first Black men in the United States to serve in an executive political position when he was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana in 1868.
