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The Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club (founded 1916) is a fraternal organization in New Orleans, Louisiana which puts on the Zulu parade each year on Mardi Gras Day. Zulu is New Orleans' largest predominantly African American carnival organization known for its krewe members wearing grass skirts and its unique throw of hand-painted coconuts. [ 1]
Casquette girl. Contemporary engraving depicting the departure of "comfort girls" to the New World. A casquette girl ( French: fille à la cassette) but also known historically as a casket girl or a Pelican girl, [ 1] was a woman brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry. [ 2][ 3] The name derives from the small chests ...
This was an innovation in New Orleans at the time: balls for free women of colour had been held in New Orleans in the 1790s, but they had been opened for both white men and free men of colour, the latter of whom could marry the women rather than form a placage with them, and these new balls exclusively for free quadroon women and white men was ...
Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton [2] was born on December 10, 1914, at Charity ward at New Orleans East Hospital in New Orleans, [3] [4] the daughter of Carmen Louise (née LaPorte) and John Watson Slaton, [i] both of whom were restaurant servers. [5] Lamour was of Spanish descent, with some English, French and possibly also distant Irish as well.
“Crack the code. Take the stage. Rewrite the rules.” The inspirational words run across the wall of M.M.LaFleur’s Upper West Side retail store, overlooking light-wash wood floors, a warm ...
Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) [1] [2] [nb 2] was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – c. 1862 ), also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana Voodoo and ...
Overcome with emotion, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif left the ring in tears after a resounding victory this weekend. Khelif has faced days of hateful comments and false accusations about her gender ...
Delphine LaLaurie. Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who was believed to have tortured and murdered enslaved people in her household.