Magazine
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
Magazine
The Architect of Gay New Orleans
Albert J. Carey (1939–2026) from “outlaw to icon”
Magazine
Second Sight
Poets Darrell Bourque and Peter Cooley write through vision loss
Latest
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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
1.8 d. New State Capitol
The current Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest capitol building in the United States.
7.9 d. Jean and Pierre Laffite
Two French brothers notorious for smuggling and slave trading also participated in the Battle of New Orleans.
7.9 d, 7.10 m. Free People of Color from the Early American Period through the Civil War
After the Louisiana Purchase, lawmakers passed numerous restrictions against free people of color, though they still experienced some economic gains and opportunities.
4.19 b.–d. Understanding Prehistoric Louisiana
By studying artifacts, archaeologists know that people were in Louisiana at least 13,000 years ago.
