Parades are set to commence Monday less than a week after a deadly truck attack killed 14 people and injured dozens in what ...

New Orleans will receive the most support possible from the federal government as it works to secure its streets for Mardi ...

The group formed the Krewe of Harambee, the first African American krewe in Shreveport. The Krewe of Harambee Martin Luther King Jr. Day Mardi Gras Parade is set for Feb. 17 at 1 p.m. It will ...

Do you know the history of Twelfth Night? Here's how it came to be known as the start of the Carnival season in New Orleans.

There are two ingredients to American carnival. They are a parade and a ball that ... The very next year, they did a parade ...

The reason is a mystery. After returning home from attending the first Mardi Gras parade of the season, they decided to throw all of the gold, green and purple beads on the tree. Despite the ...

The Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc second lines to the Joan of Arc statue in the French Quarter on Jan. 5, 2025. Life Sacco (center), a senior at the Isidore Newman School, will play one of two Joans in ...

The Mardi Gras season, also known as Carnival, begins on January 6th and ends on March 4th, 2025. The first Mardi Gras celebration in the U.S. took place in 1699, but celebrations were temporarily ...

There are two ingredients to American carnival ... Some claim that the first Mardi Gras celebration happened on the evening of March 2, 1699, when Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville and Jean Baptist ...