David Blight, a professor of history and African American studies at Yale, has called the Charleston commemoration the first ...

The fourth annual Capitol City Classic Tattoo Convention is underway this weekend in Sacramento. The event at the Safe Credit ...

New Orleans celebrated the repatriation and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to ...

In the restaurant’s taco department, the Baja Fish—a combination of fried fish, chipotle frijoles, cilantro crema, and ...

It should go without saying: Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is not a Mexican version ... donning fancy suits and gowns to mimic the calavera Catrina. Día de los Muertos is more popular ...

One of the many well-known representations of the Day of the Dead, La Calavera Catrina, which translates to "elegant skull," first appeared in 1910 as a skeletal figure wearing an elaborate outfit.

One of the most iconic Day of the Dead symbols, La Calavera Catrina, an elegant skull, was created by satirical cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada in 1910. The illustration depicted a skeleton ...

Coming up this Friday and Saturday is Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a tradition devoted ... performances in its "interactive cemetery," Catrina contests and art and music workshops ...

The Nov. 2 Day of the Dead parade is, in a way ... Many of the marchers dress as the floral/skeletal characters Catrin and Catrina, which are based on a satirical 19th-century cartoon by renowned ...

One of the many well-known representations of the Day of the Dead, La Calavera Catrina, which translates to "elegant skull," first appeared in 1910 as a skeletal figure wearing an elaborate outfit.