{"id":136547,"date":"2026-02-17T20:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136547\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:36:33","slug":"queen-zulu-sharell-chatman-fulfills-lifelong-dream-reigns-over-new-orleans-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136547\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Zulu Sharell Chatman fulfills lifelong dream, reigns over New Orleans parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; Queen Zulu Sharell Monique Chatman, a resident of Jefferson Parish, reigned through the streets of New Orleans for the Zulu Parade Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/01\/15\/how-watch-fox-8-new-orleans-free-your-smart-tv\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/01\/15\/how-watch-fox-8-new-orleans-free-your-smart-tv\/\">How to watch FOX 8 New Orleans for free on your smart TV<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chatman is an engineer and the niece of Zulu King Dr. Ron Tasson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She said this has been a very emotional year and that she has been ready for this moment her entire life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chatman wore a gown and crown and carried a scepter as members of her royal court accompanied her. She smiled as she greeted the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/02\/16\/live-mardi-gras-coverage-new-orleans-surrounding-parishes\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/02\/16\/live-mardi-gras-coverage-new-orleans-surrounding-parishes\/\">Live Mardi Gras coverage from New Orleans and surrounding parishes<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She is reigning over New Orleans and the Zulu parade and has the opportunity to see what she described as a million of her best friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/02\/17\/queen-zulu-sherelle-monique-chapman-fulfills-lifelong-dream-reigns-over-new-orleans-parade\/mailto:WVUE-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to report it. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the Fox 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ijTadOgOLbGWGC1rRy9lA?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WVUE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; Queen Zulu Sharell Monique Chatman, a resident of Jefferson Parish, reigned through the streets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-136547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}