The Thiossane West African Dance Institute is bringing the sights, sounds and motion of West Africa to Ohio State this week. The Thursday, Friday and Sunday performances in Sullivant Hall will be ...

Dance as viewed through our modern lens is centered on entertainment. You can hardly look at a music video, sports game or viral clip that doesn’t involve the latest dance move of the moment. Thanks, ...

'Uncredited' takes its audience through the complexities of Afro dance, the heritage, and how it has swayed the African culture and the music industry as a whole. The old adage, “there’s nothing new ...

Historically, Black people have had to find ways to uplift one another and celebrate life— even in the face of racism and inhumane treatment. As the Black community celebrates Juneteenth, the AFRO is ...

This week the African Students Association at Arizona State University and the Phoenix Chapter of The Links, Incorporated collaborated to create the "Afro-Grooves: Dance Series," which aims to connect ...

It is rare that a book blasts me with wisdom as forcefully as the one I read last week: Way of the Bushman as Told by the Tribal Elders: Spiritual Teachings and Practices of the Kalahari Ju|hoansi. I ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — In the heat of the evening sun, a few dozen people gathered Wednesday night at 555 Monroe Avenue NW to enjoy a free fitness class and a taste of culture at the same time.

Women are singing, a couple dances, and drummers play the greatest African instrument. This is the highly traditional Panamian dance, the bullerengue. The dance that is the product of a painful past ...

I always fondly recall the first concert in June 1999 of the new KCRW World Festival series at the Hollywood Bowl. Brazilian superstar Carlinhos Brown headlined at that inaugural show, but the concert ...

“Shake your butt! Did we come here to sit and hide our posterior or to show it off?” says the energetic Patricia Badin, 49, a twerking teacher at the FGO Barbara Centre in the cosmopolitan Parisian ...

Each month, a new trainer takes us through four of the best workouts they have in their back pocket. Follow along weekly for new ways to sweat it out with us. See All True to its name, Afro dance ...

It is rare that a book blasts me with wisdom as forcefully as the one I read last week: Way of the Bushman as Told by the Tribal Elders: Spiritual Teachings and Practices of the Kalahari Ju|hoansi. I ...