For the first time in years, Milwaukeeans can celebrate African culture during an ethnic and cultural showcase at Brown Deer Park in July. This year's celebration features a day full of traditional ...

In the years after Emancipation, a new sound emerged among formerly enslaved African-American communities working on cotton plantations in the Deep South. An amalgamation of field hollers, church ...

The 2024 Grammy Awards saw the inception of the "Best African Music Performance" category. However, some digging shows how the category leaves out a large scope of the music coming out of the ...

I have the pleasure of living in the big, busy, diverse, and very diasporic city of Atlanta, where the summertime lituations are about to get very real. There are a ton of great DJs in town spinning ...

CHARLOTTE — All day Saturday, you can enjoy food, music, dancing and more at the 12th annual Charlotte African American Festival. The Uptown event celebrates the heritage and accomplishments of ...

While many African artists have been able to ride the wave of Afrobeats’ international popularity, musicians including Tyla and Burna Boy are now pushing for global recognition beyond the genre.

In partnership with Berklee College of Music, the Tiwa Savage Music Foundation will host a four-day intensive for artists in Nigeria. Afrobeats artist Tiwa Savage has launched a new philanthropic ...

Africa's music festival landscape has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, and as we sit here , it's impossible to deny how much the continent has become a powerhouse for live music ...

Black. It is the color that absorbs all colors, the shade that holds the sun's warmth as it moves east to west. It is the color of a people, not just African but Caribbean, Middle Eastern, American, ...

MILWAUKEE - The African Cultural Festival returned to Milwaukee on Saturday, July 6. It took a dedicated group of volunteers to bring the festival back for the first time since 2019. "I see this as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began their forward expansion on that great continent.” Originally known as ...