Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Revellers celebrate during one of this year's Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. (Adam Mahoney/Capital B) During what should have ...

A Mardi Gras social group says it is investigating an incident on a float during its Feb. 14 parade in which a Black doll appeared to hang by the neck from a necklace of beads. Photos and videos of ...

The Krewe of Tucks has since apologized for the offensive behavior. A Mardi Gras krewe faced backlash over a display of Black dolls hanging on their float. Krewe of Tucks garnered criticism for its ...

In New Orleans Mardi Gras culture, Miriam Batiste Reed was an important bridge between generations. She began masking as a Baby Doll with her mother, probably back in the 1940s. Fifty years later, ...

EUNICE, La. — Located on Highway 190, one mile past the Walmart, you will find Cajun Girls Corner. Owned and operated by Kindy Devillier, she is the craftswoman behind all the Mardi Gras decor inside ...

New Orleans City Council members on Monday grilled Mardi Gras parading groups over several incidents that darkened this year’s celebration, including throws of dolls with beads around their necks, ...

The old Creole song “Chère, mo lemmé toi” is a sweet love song, if a little dramatic. In English, the tune’s first verse ends simply as the singer says, “With all my heart, I love you,” before the ...

Though sexy Mardi Gras costumes are not uncommon in New Orleans, few carry a history as rich as the Baby Dolls. Though the tradition later spread more widely, it began with black prostitutes who ...

NEW ORLEANS — A room in Janice Kimble’s home is covered wall-to-wall, floor to ceiling in Mardi Gras mementos. They represent more than a century of her family’s history. “I have history with the ...