The New Orleans version, Mardi Gras — "Fat Tuesday" — apparently goes back as far as 1699. The first Mardi Gras parade was ...

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Ebo Taylor has died at 90. He was a world-renowned musician and composer of African highlife music, but it took decades for ...

They are expected to handle many of the same responsibilities as their older counterparts: to dance and to practice, to sew and to bead, ever more frantically as Mardi Gras approaches.

The African Student Organization (ASO) delivered an unforgettable experience through fashion, dance and culture at MTSU. A ...