A group of New Orleans women hope to revive a nearly lost aspect from the earliest days of the Baby Dolls tradition: singing in Louisiana Creole as they parade on Mardi Gras Day.

The origins of New Orleans’ most beloved organizations are storied. By the early 1900s, women from New Orleans’ Red Light District, 7th Ward Creoles of color along with women of color t… ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The French Market District will celebrate the 39th annual Creole Tomato Festival June 7 and June 8. The festival will cover the French Market, Dutch Alley and Latrobe Park ...

Pope Leo XIV has Creole roots in New Orleans, 'a blessing' for the diaspora, advocate says The pope’s maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry ...

The archdiocese of New Orleans unearthed records documenting the marriage of her parents in 1864, and the baptism of her mother — one of the pope’s great-grandmothers — in 1840 at St. Louis ...