The throws of New Orleans Mardi Gras parades require enthusiasm to attain. However, the mass of beads, cups and plastic items aren’t always treasured passed the Mardi Gras holiday. Few signat… ...

The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club will host its annual Lundi Gras Festival in Woldenberg Park on Monday, February 28. The festival began in 1993 from an idea proposed by George Rainey of the Zulu ...

Thomas Price, a Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club Member, said, "In past years we used to use these coconuts in the raw form, the hairy form, and if you can notice they make like a little natural ...

In the early 1900s, the Black social group Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club began marching in Mardi Gras parades; The documentary A King Like Me reveals that the group decided to wear blackface ...

Every year, African-American members of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club paint their faces black for the city's Mardi Gras celebrations. Now, they're facing calls to end the practice.

Zulu's involvement with the Mardi Gras parade began back during the organization's establishment in 1909. It wasn't until two years later, that parade goers would get the chance to get their hands ...

But Zulu club officials, among them some of New Orleans’ most prominent black business and elected leaders, aren’t sorry. They say their Carnival getups have nothing to do with the racist ...

Zulu is still trying to work a joke that began 110 years ago. If comedy is the quickest to age, it’s fair to ask when did black people parading around in blackened faces stop being funny.

This photo of the court of the Zulu king and queen was likely taken in the 1920s or early 1930s. (File photo) The Times-Picayune's New Orleans Tricentennial project, 300 for 300, continues with a ...