BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) continues its partnership with Télé-Louisiane, bringing viewers eight all-new episodes of La Veillée, a 15-minute weekly look at the happenings, ...

The New Orleans Foundation for Francophone Cultures (Nous) has launched its new grant program called the Dr. Homer J. Dupuy ...

MAMOU, La. - It's 9:30 a.m. and the drinking and dancing already are raging at Fred's Lounge, a fais do-do of Cajun French music, waltzes and two-steps, with cans of Miller Lite the breakfast of ...

In 2021 Louisiana was home to an estimated 250,000 French speakers, considering the fact just a generation or two ago Louisiana had a million French speakers. Created in 1968, the Council for the ...

Peggy Feehan is a native French speaker, born in New Brunswick, Canada, and educated there. She taught high school science before moving to Louisiana in 1999, when she was recruited by the Council for ...

The first thing you realize when you enter the classroom filled with eager 5th graders is that, though the school is in the heart of New Orleans, no one is speaking English. “Quel est cet objet?” ...

ZACHARY, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana is the only American state where French can be heard frequently, as the language has been part of its culture since the late 1600s. Some people are trying to ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading.

One of the things I enjoy about Louisiana is that keeps in touch with its French heritage. I live in the Lafayette area and enjoy events like Mardi Gras, Le Festival Acadiens et Créoles, Le Festival ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - The producers of the state’s first Louisiana French language television programs in 30 years say that funding has been secured for their productions after last week’s Senate ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - Producers of the only Louisiana French TV programming in the state say that they are facing losing their funding after the State Senate meets in a few days to finalize the ...

Some Louisiana schools could lose their French and Spanish immersion programs following a decision by President Donald Trump to suspend temporary work visas, state educators say. Trump's order ...