The new documentary 'A King Like Me' reveals that members of the Black group Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club decided to ...

There are plenty of parades all over New Orleans celebrating Mardi Gras that began in January and will last through Mardi Gras on Feb. 13. Here's when and where to catch these parades, according ...

Despite what you might have heard, Mardi Gras didn't get its start in New Orleans. Mardi Gras actually began in Mobile, Alabama – a port city with close proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, located ...

FILE – Rex, the King of Carnival, rides in the Krewe of Rex as he arrives at Canal St. on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, March 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) ...

Born and raised in New Orleans, she met her husband on the sidelines of the Krewe of Pandora nearly 50 years ago and had pushed away her worries to come out the weekend before Mardi Gras ...