When I think of roots, I think of lineage and mothers. Tradition is passed on primarily through the mothers," dancer Ramya S.

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

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

The word at the sixth annual Juneteenth Festival in New Orleans on Thursday was heritage. Among the throngs who gathered in ...

The Odunde Festival celebrates 50 years in Philly on Sunday, June 8, with live music, African and Caribbean food, a river procession, road closures, and two performance stages.

Simmons joined Duke in 1998, where he taught West African and Afro-Cuban music with a particular focus on the djembe drum and ...

We sat down to learn more about the Grand Rapids African American Museum & Archives' Juneteenth event, featuring food, live ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The South Philadelphia Odunde Festival is celebrating it's 50th year with live music, dancing, art and ...

The 50th anniversary of the largest African arts festival in the United States went off under cloudy skies in Philadelphia.

Sunny Eselekhomhen is a school bus driver for Sacramento City Schools who has used music to unite students across the school district for a good cause.