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 ...

If you walked by Mulberry Arts Studios in the past couple of weeks, there's a chance you heard the sound of drums. Not just any drums — traditional African drums, called djembe, that are so ...

A dancer of the Afro-Cuban IFE-ILE Dance Company performs at its annual dance festival in 2014. Courtesy of Nelson Alvarez/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 Later this month, rhythm and dance from the Afro-Cuban ...

Selah Thompson (front) teaches how the skirt is used in Afro Cuban dance to mimic natural movements seen in nature at the Traditional Music Society dance class. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star ...

HIGH. LA CASITA OVIEDO CREDIT DE LA CASITA OVIEDO. MERIT A T LO BUFFALO MEDIA LO MARINETTE. CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH RIGHT HERE IN MILWAUKEE. YOU JUST HEARD THE DJEMBE DRUM AND DANCE AND ...

YUNGAS, Bolivia — Cielo Torres had always lived in Bolivia. Yet before moving at age 17 to the remote town of Tocaña — where much of the country’s Afro-descendant community lives — she had rarely ...

It’s been over a decade since Milwaukeeans gathered en masse to celebrate African culture and heritage. But, thanks to the work of three local women, the African Cultural Festival is slated to take ...