The acclaimed writer-director and ‘Sinners’ choreographer Aakomon Jones looked beyond vampires and the blues to make the most ...

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of a pioneer of West African Mande music, kora maestro and musical innovator extraordinaire Foday Musa Suso.Foday was one of the first artists ever ...

If you make your way to Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, you can find a unique presentation titled ...

Ryan Coogler, director of the “Black Panther” franchise released “Sinners”, a vampire musical-horror film set in 1930s ...

How Philly blues guitarist Randy Bowland taught Hollywood breakout star, Miles Caton, to play the slide guitar for the film ...

Unlike the African misrulers, the Chinese leadership embraced the country’s culture and history; it has not tried to run away ...

Africa is a continent of stories. Long before colonial borders and modern states, there were tales—tales whispered beside ...

Bassist and composer Benjamin Jephta was "born-free" in 1992 in South Africa, in the post-apartheid era, and grew up in the "colored township" of Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. The exploration of ...

Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o has nurtured countless minds, always emphasizing that literature is not merely entertainment but a tool for social transformation.

West African griots, enslaved banjo players and white entertainers all shaped each other’s music. She belongs to a cohort of scholar-musicians who have waded into the prehistory of African ...

“Sinners” is a film about the son of a preacher named Sammie — played by Miles Canton — who works on a plantation in ...

Attacks by Islamic militants are surging in western Africa, where the U.S. is struggling to track terrorist movements in the ...