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The Queen Brown Sugar Festival
How Iberia Parish’s Black community transformed exclusion into celebration
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The Queen Brown Sugar Festival
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What Endures
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The Architect of Gay New Orleans
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What Endures
Shrimp and Petroleum’s legacy on the Atchafalaya
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The Architect of Gay New Orleans
Albert J. Carey (1939–2026) from “outlaw to icon”
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Second Sight
Poets Darrell Bourque and Peter Cooley write through vision loss
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64 Parishes Story Wins Statewide Journalism Award
“King of Olympus” by Robert W. Fieseler was honored with a first place award from the Louisiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
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Institute Releases Timeline Resource for Classrooms
What was Louisiana Doing while America was becoming America?
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64 Parishes Wins Multiple 2026 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
Read our winning stories
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64 Parishes Finalist for Multiple 2026 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
64 Parishes Magazine has received four 2026 Excellence in Journalism Award nominations, including for Best Magazine
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
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.
7.10 d.-e. Caddo Nation
The Caddo people, who began to inhabit the Red River valley approximately 2,500 years ago, were eventually pushed out of their traditional territory by Anglo-American immigrants.
1.8 d. New State Capitol
The current Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest capitol building in the United States.
4.19 b.–c. Paleoindian Period
People from the Clovis culture and San Patrice culture were some of Louisiana’s earliest inhabitants.
