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Carnival royalty: Meet the first Black queen of ALLA Mardi Gras Parade
Gian Durand is the ALLA parade’s first black queen in its 93-year existence. The 45-year-old dedicated her achievements to the late Dorothy Mae Taylor, a Civil Rights leader and former New Orleans City Council member. Taylor is most popular for her trailblazing and contentious 1992 city ordinance, which prohibited discrimination in Mardi Gras krewe parades…
