Specifically, purple, gold, green, and silver beads. So what is the meaning behind the beads at Mardi Gras? Here's what we know about why the beads were incorporated into this celebration and why ...

Throwing and catching gold, green, and purple beads is a cherished Mardi Gras tradition, but as it turns out, these petroleum ...

Mardi Gras is celebrated with parades ... as revelers eat king cakes and toss green, purple and gold beads into the crowd. Those colors represent power (gold), faith (green) and justice (purple).

A successful Mardi Gras used to be measured by how much waste it produced. Now, the world's largest free festival is trying to clean up. The mood is festive as I board the pink and purple Mardi ...

The store offers an extensive inventory beyond traditional Mardi Gras decorations, including "all types of beads, trinkets ... "All the purple, green and gold is a must," Childress noted ...

Larson became aware of the incident after a paradegoer said he caught a bag of purple ... beads in the trash. “We all made light of the situation because nobody wanted to ruin the Mardi Gras ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is bigger ... At the recycling stations, paradegoers can also pick up free purple crawfish sacks that can be filled with beads and clean throws and donated at a later ...

The colors of Mardi Gras are purple (justice), gold (power ... the city of New Orleans removes more than 93,000 pounds of Mardi Gras beads from a five-block stretch of the city’s drains.