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.

7.8 h. Louisiana Purchase and Territorial Louisiana

This entry covers the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the period of territorial governance that followed until Louisiana became a state in 1812.

1.8 d. St. Louis Cathedral

This place of religious worship is one of New Orleans’s best-known buildings.

8.17 c. Hurricanes in Louisiana

Louisiana hurricanes have played an essential role in the state’s history as recorded from colonization through the present.

7.13 d.-f. Civil War Louisiana

The years between 1861 and 1865 were the most tumultuous five-year span in Louisiana history.