theGrio

Back to the Top

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • Entertainment
    • Music
    • The Dish
  • Health
    • Ask Dr. Ty
    • Black Men’s Health
    • Black Women and Breast Cancer
    • Back to School Health
  • Living
    • Travel and Leisure
    • Living Forward
    • Books
  • Politics
    • Perry on Politics
  • Sports
  • News
    • Good News
  • Opinion

Fat Tuesday

(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans

Nick Spitzer
SLIDESHOW - New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians are African American and Afro Creole bands of mostly working-class men who use the European Carnival day or 'Fat Tuesday'” to express continuity within black communities across the cityscape...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
This 2010 photo provided by Jeffry Dupuis shows the Baby Doll Ladies performing in the Zulu krewe parade on Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Baby dolls – groups of women in skimpy or short, ruffled dresses – started with one group of African-American prostitutes wanting to one-up another on Mardi Gras 1912, but spread within decades to respectable black neighborhoods. The tradition had died out is seeing a modern revival. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jeffry Dupuis via New Orleans Society of Dance)

Black 'baby doll' tradition returns to Carnival

Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The 'baby dolls,' an on-again, off-again Mardi Gras tradition of New Orleans' African-American community, are on again...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)

  • Learn about our User Panel

    Read More

  • See What Your Friends Are Reading

  • More from theGrio

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Politics
  • Living
  • Video
  • Inspire
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • News
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise with TheGrio
  • About
©2013 NBCUniversal
Powered by WordPress.com VIP