John McCusker / The Times-PicayuneA rider on the "Zulu Ambassador" float hands out a prized coconut on Jackson Avenue in February 2009. To avoid injuries and liability, the Zulu Social ...

Zulu Coconuts: A Prized Catch While I was working the parade crowd the other day, a man stopped me and asked about my accent. He was also working the crowd on a mission of his own: dispensing his ...

Jon Cleary has a new digital single out today, Zulu Coconuts, just in time for Carnival season. Check it out!

Myron Green has been designing Zulu coconuts for years. He dazzles the crowds with his creativity in an effort to offer the type of Mardi Gras catch worth keeping.

The Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club is gearing up for what’s expected to be one of its biggest Mardi Gras celebrations yet! With the theme “Precious Jewels of Zululand,” we c… ...

Members of the Krewe of Zulu flung cloth bags from their floats on Mardi Gras in protest of the massive Formosa Plastics complex planned in St. James Parish.

"This is a fairy tale. To understand the importance of being in this position is not just about coconuts, which it is," said the Zulu Queen.

At the Brown Bomber the mourning Zulus gathered, planned a proper funeral with five bands, pallbearers in Mardi Gras skirts of grass, and all the Zulu mourners carrying coconuts.

The young artists are decorating 500 coconuts for the New Orleans Zulu parade. Students are designing the coconuts for two groups, the Walking Warriors, and Zulu Tramps.

If you don’t get goosebumps at least a couple of times on your first listen to the the Zulu album, then I don’t even know what to tell you. Zulu, the Los Angeles hardcore band, have been ...

Music Features Zulu's soul-sampling powerviolence shifts the pit toward love Meaty riffs, disembodied screams and... Curtis Mayfield?

Every Mardi Gras in New Orleans for the past 100 years, the Krewe of Zulu, comprised mainly of African Americans, parades through the streets in blackface, wearing grass skirts, and throwing coconuts.