“Bomba is not only a genre, it's kind of a lifestyle," one dancer said. As the nation commemorates Black History Month, Afro-Puerto Ricans are using their traditional dance and music -- Bomba -- to ...

Growing up in a working-class section of Jersey City, Cynthia Renta learned how to negotiate between many colliding worlds: the Cuban crowd she hung out with in Union City; her fellow Puerto Ricans ...

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Protesters ended Friday’s 5,000-person Black Lives Matter march with an hour of singing, dancing, and celebration set to the sounds of bomba, a music of resistance. Dozens circled together outside ...

Puerto Rico has always marched to the beat of its own drum — and if you ask any Puerto Rican, they’ll tell you that the drum in question is the barril de bomba, a rum barrel topped with goat skin that ...

The Taller Bombalele Dance Company will present a free performance and workshop of Afro-Puerto-Rican Bomba at the Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center on Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The ...

The new album, "Feast," is something of a concept album, with each track offering a scenario or evolutionary situation for humankind. "Feast to me has two different connotations. One is like, oh my ...