Regarding the James Gill column "Carnival not what it used to be, when parades had class," the Comus Krewe that he so admires set the racist pattern of New Orleans Mardi Gras that still echoes today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historically excluded from krewes and carnivals, Black Americans created their own Mardi Gras traditions.ullstein bild/ullstein ...

Comus, Momus and Proteus chose to cease parading. Proteus reinstituted its parade in 2000, signing an affidavit that it did not discriminate on the basis of race. Comus and Momus have remained off the ...

Mardi Gras traditions haven’t changed much in the last three decades on the Coast. But do you know all of the Mardi Gras lingo and what it means or why we say it? We’ve got you covered. In 1998, the ...