More Than Beads, Booze and Boobs

There is admittedly a Girls Gone Wild element to Mardi Gras. You know, the intoxicated young women raising their shirts for beads and engaging in salacious sexual activity on the streets. That may be so for many tourists, but for natives like my family, Mardi Gras is a family-bonding time: cooking out and dancing to the bands marching by, all the while screaming for the beads and other trinkets thrown from the vibrantly decorated floats. I have never once ... Full Story »

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by Tamika Thompson - Feb. 25, 2009

The strength of this piece is in its writing, its supporting links and its purpose - inviting the reader to consider the African American contribution to Mardi Gras tradition in New Orleans. The writer's photo gallery supports her argument that Mardi Gras is a family affair.

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