In the early 1900s, the Black social group Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club began marching in Mardi Gras parades The documentary A King Like Me reveals that the group decided to wear blackface makeup ...

This year, the most significant changes to the parading season are over the lineups and routes of several popular events.

New Orleans is a city famous for its food, music, and culture, with a history and ongoing undercurrents of complex community identities and racial dynamics. Every Mardi Gras in New Orleans for the ...

On Sunday evening, Aug. 28, 2005, I was looking out of the upper window of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, looking down as crowds were scurrying to enter the Superdome. I had just checked into the ...