(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) In New Orleans, some African Americans mask in elaborate beaded and feathered Mardi Gras Indian suits, roving the city to sing, dance, drum and perform. The tradition, ...

Photograph by Patrick Semansky, AP Photos When Mardi Gras arrived in the U.S., so did ... Today, krewe members don masks and brightly colored satin costumes—which “allow the wearer to have ...

But eventually, this trick was found out by the government who would ban masks statewide, a law that is still applicable today. Things changed, however, when the state officially made Mardi Gras a ...

We want to see how you are celebrating Mardi Gras! Submit your photos from parades below ... the parade which originated in Mobile. Mobile Mask discovered newspaper archives showing Joe Cain ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The good times and parades still rolled in New Orleans for Mardi Gras Day celebrations early ... people donning skeleton masks and antlers on their heads gathered in New ...

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) In New Orleans, some African Americans mask in elaborate beaded and feathered Mardi Gras Indian suits, roving the city to sing, dance, drum and perform. The ...