Selah Thompson (front) teaches how the skirt is used in Afro Cuban dance to mimic natural movements seen in nature at the Traditional Music Society dance class. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star ...

DanceAfrica, BAM's longest-running program and the nation's largest festival of African dance and culture, returns for its 48th year with a full weekend of performances, films, dance classes, and ...

In a joyful expression of West African culture through dance, music and storytelling, the youth and professional dance companies from Thiossane West African Dance Institute will showcase the ...

Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ...

A new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...

The interactive, family-friendly event Teaching Africa Day returns for its ninth year to raise students’ awareness of the arts and history of Africa. The daylong event will be hosted in the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. 651 Arts, dedicated to African diasporic performance, now has its own space to support work like the choreographer André Zachery’s “Against Gravity.” Toya Lillard at the new ...

Dec. 26 marks the first day of Kwanzaa, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, in partnership with the Asase ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

On a chilly October night, the dimly lit lounge of Rock Steady — a popular Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Midtown — is notably empty. Staffers are preparing for what’s supposed to be a busy night ahead.