Talking drums, ritual dances and the Umoja African Arts Company will conjure up ancient spiritual anthems of African ancestors at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday at 2 p. m. A variety of dances from ...

February 3, 2010 Just in time for Black History Month, Chicago author Stephanie Rose Bird has written an unusual new work: The Big Book of Soul: The Ultimate Guide to the African American Spirit ...

It’s still several minutes to curtain at a recent performance of “Drumstruck,” but 350 percussionists banging on African drums already have a steady beat going inside Dodger Stages. And the audience ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as ...