Music, food and dance marked the Juneteenth holiday in Kalamazoo as hundreds filled Bronson Park throughout Saturday.

Juneteenth weekend events are set for next weekend, this year set to kickoff with a special event at the Robert H. Jackson ...

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

Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, heard news of ...

• Underground Railroad tours will be offered in partnership with the National Park Service at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Tours, which last approximately one hour, will begin outside the Museum which is ...

Bembé Drum & Dance will debut “Bembe! Journey the Atlantic” at the Todd Wehr Theater at Marcus Performing Arts Center on ...

With a theme of "Unity in Education," the Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions presented St. Mary's County's ...

While June 19 is recognized as a federal holiday, Juneteenth celebrations are already underway in Northeast Ohio.

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

For this month’s ‘Made in Africa’ column, we list the music from across the African diaspora we’re taking into the summer ...

A free West African drum circle takes place every Tuesday night ... festivals like the African World Peace Festival and swing dance lessons, she said the nonprofit is working to position ...