The first woman elected queen of Alabama’s leading black Mardi Gras group has died. News outlets report that Aline Jenkins Howard of Mobile died Thursday. She was 97. Mobile has what it calls ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The first woman elected queen of Alabama's leading black Mardi Gras group has died. News outlets report that Aline Jenkins Howard of Mobile died Thursday. She was 97. Mobile ...

Like this year’s 2020 Mobile Carnival Association king, Sumner Greer Adams Jr., Queen Seline Vaughan Morrissette will wear a family train retrieved from the Mobile Carnival Museum.

Mobile, Ala. (WKRG-TV)– Aline Jenkins Howard, crowned in 1940 the first African American Queen of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (MAMGA), has died at the age of 97.

Before New Orleans, there was Mobile, Alabama — the birthplace of Mardi Gras in America. Mobile, founded by Roman Catholics from France in 1702, was home to the first mystic society, or "krewe ...

If you think you know Mardi Gras, you don't . . . well, not unless you know that the first celebration in the United States happened in . . . Mobile, Alabama, not New Orleans. It has been an ...

Finding the roots of when Mardi Gras was first celebrated in America is as complicated as the act of celebrating it today is simple.. Some historians say it first appeared in Mobile, Alabama ...

Although Mardi Gras in New Orleans gets all the attention, the event in Mobile, Alabama, is actually older. Mardi Gras and Carnival are traditional — and traditionally excessive — celebrations ...

Okay, so Mobile Mardi Gras is no secret to the citizens of the state and maybe a few other nearby southerners, but did you know that there's a Mardi Gras celebration in Mobile, Alabama? Better yet ...