NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's Cajun and Creole heritage takes center stage this weekend when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through ...

It was another hot, humid August day in Eunice. A 12-year-old Nathan Rabalais sat across from his Mawmaw at the restaurant, waiting for their to-go order to make it home before her soap opera started.

Mo peur nous va quitté le langage à nos vieux parents mouri. Créole qui donne nous-autres le goût d'une l'histoire qui représent la mosaïque de La Louisiane, li toujours traité comme un langage ...

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, you’ll notice several obvious connections to its namesake motherland. Many of the street names are French — Rue Bourbon, par exemple — and corner bistros send aromas of pralines, beignets, and bread ...

On today's installment of World Cafe's Sense Of Place visit to Lafayette, La., we speak with Michael Doucet, who plays Cajun, Creole, zydeco and other traditional music as a founding member and ...

BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Corey Ledet, lead singer in Corey Ledet and His Zydeco Band, belts out lyrics to an old zydeco tune in Louisiana French while literally bending the accordion to his will and ...

Books in Haitian Creole will take center stage at the Little Haiti Book Festival. Haitian Creole is the national language of the Republic of Haiti, spoken by nearly the entire population of the island ...

Despite uncharacteristically wintry weather, the scene at the 7th Ward’s Neighborhood Story Project was warm and convivial recently as 40 to 50 people gathered to eat, drink, dance and celebrate the ...

This article originally appeared in Yiddish. As most Forward readers probably know, Yiddish and Hebrew are by far not the only Jewish languages. Jewish communities around the world once spoke or still ...