NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Mardi Gras is the largest Carnival celebration in the northeastern hemisphere and the result the contributions of many different cultures. Black Masking Indians helped to bring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS — From the porch of his family’s home in Uptown New Orleans, Gerard “Little Bo” Dollis remembers being small enough to ...

As the clock ticks down to Mardi Gras 2025, folks from Bridge City to Central City are sewing. Perched under lamps at tables where saucers brim with colorful beads, members of the city’s Black Indian ...

NEW ORLEANS — Mardi Gras is a special day in New Orleans, and tradition runs deep through this historic city. The Black Masking Indians are a rich part of that history. Tribes of Indians walked ...

This Saturday, September 21 the relatively new Joan Mitchell Center (JMC) for art on Bayou Road presents a screening of the rare documentary film from 1976, The Black Indians of New Orleans, along ...

Having the audacity to pursue truth is a courageous act. And, when studying historical texts or reading for leisure, it is important to examine the written word comparatively. Because the question ...

Uptown Super Sunday saw Black Masking Indians take to the streets for the yearly traditional procession, on Sunday March 24, 2024. Photographer Keith Hill was on the ground, following Big Chief Howard ...

Sunday, March 16 in New Orleans sparkled. Thousands of people were out to see the glory and creativity of the Black Masking Indians in New Orleans' Super Sunday. The next Monday's paper, however, had ...

Black Indians have largely disappeared from frontier history, but a determined group has refused to go quietly into oblivion. One of them, a soft-spoken Head Start teacher named Sylvia Davis, has ...