EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) -- As we wrap up celebrating Black History Month, a Brooklyn family teaching African dance and drumming in public schools lost its rhythm after not getting paid for ...

The Music and Dance Programs are coming together to present a workshop and concert by the award-winning SAAKUMU Dance and Percussion Troupe from Ghana. Led by master musician, Bernard Woman, the group ...

Half of the percussion section is lined up along a classroom wall, with whiteboards to their backs. Each young boy is shaking a shekere — a West African instrument made from a dried gourd and covered ...

It might seem that combining yoga, often satirized as exercise for the elite, and dances of the African diaspora, which generally have more community-centric roots, are an unlikely mix. Yet Leslie ...

This article is one of the winning submissions from the New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. Students form a circle in the middle of the room, as loud, pounding music plays ...

During the African Student Association ‘s workshop Tuesday, music reverberated throughout Pennington Hall as students learned the dynamic steps of African dance. From the lively Afrobeats to ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

This past Friday and Saturday night, Dallas Black Dance Theater hosted its seventh annual “Dance Africa” festival at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, featuring four performing companies: Dallas Black ...

East St. Louis’ artists foster African American dance legend Katherine Dunham's legacy. African American dance legend Katherine Dunham turned East St. Louis into an important hub of the Black Arts ...