Carnival and other masquerade celebrations in the Americas honor African, Indigenous, and European roots—and take jabs at ...

The 2027 Royal Court has been announced for the 78th Washington Mardi Gras Ball. The Ball will be held at the Washington ...

The 2027 Washington Mardi Gras royalty have been crowned. They joined a long lineage going back more than 80 years. See the ...

Pete November, the CEO of Ochsner Health, and Peighton Ashley, a pre-med student at Xavier University in New Orleans, will be ...

Congo Square in New Orleans was one of the only places where, in the 18th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans could gather.

City leaders are working to bring Mardi Gras back to Port Arthur after the festival left in 2019 following a 26-year run. Mardi Gras of Southeast Texas was first held in Port Arthur in 1993, but the ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Big Chief ...

On Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, if you're lucky or in the know, you can see a dazzling procession of Mardi Gras Indians, or Black Masking Indians, marching through the streets, resplendent in suits ...

Shia LaBeouf has been arrested on another charge related to his alleged Mardi Gras bar brawl earlier this month. LaBeouf was being held at the Louisiana Orleans Justice Center after being taken into ...

Even at the annual Rex and Comus balls in New Orleans, the talk drifts toward Amtrak trains and the roots of Mardi Gras. An exchange involving historians Errol LaBorde and Arthur Hardy during the ball ...

LaBeouf takes to social media following his bar fight and amid new videos of the actor continuing to party in New Orleans. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Shia LaBeouf posted “free me” on X Wednesday ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Mardi Gras marks the grand finale of Carnival season in New Orleans, with parades featuring signature “throws” ...