Bradley Simmons, instructor of West African percussion at Duke University for nearly three decades, died at 72 on May 22.

President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass will speak at 5:30 p.m. Friday in a Juneteenth National Independence Day ...

Downtown Fayetteville comes alive every Tuesday evening with the sound of West African drums flowing from Taste of West ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by ...

President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass will speak at 5:30 p.m. Friday in a Juneteenth National Independence Day program at Marietta College. Living Historian Michael Crutcher will bring ...

Ghanaian dance and drumming in Minneapolis; Flint Hills Family Festival in St. Paul; Twin Cities Asian Fair in Plymouth; ...

Morojele’s creative career was remarkable. He not only played the jazz changes, but lived and wrote the social and political ...

Moholo's death, the last surviving member of The Blue Notes, saddened many. Online users shared heartfelt farewell messages ...

New Orleans celebrated the repatriation and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to ...

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