Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, marks the climax and end of the weekslong Carnival season and a final chance for indulgence, feasting and revelry before the Christian Lent period of sacrifice ...

New Orleans authorities and the La. Attorney General are investigating a racist display that occurred during the Krewe of ...

Trinidad and Tobago practically shuts down two days for its famed annual carnival, dubbed “the greatest show on Earth." However, a growing number of people on the twin-island Caribbean nation can ...

Rio de Janeiro's Carnival is using samba parades to spotlight Black Brazilian women writers who rarely get public recognition ...

Umbrellas. Beads. A funky beat, and a march down Rampart street. That — for tourists, anyway — is Mardi Gras. That, and a lot of drinking. "It's fun music to play, people like it, they recognize it," ...