African Beauty has come to western shelves and helped me connect to my culture. Here are the brands making an impact. Like many Black Americans of African descent, I grew up removed from my heritage.

Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the ...

The scent of burning copal filled the air as Aztec dancers, bedecked in feathered headdresses and wearing shell-embellished ankle cuffs, blessed an intersection bordering Little Village and North ...

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and beholder- Aldous Huxley. It is safe to say that whatever fashion or beauty trend is in vogue now has a history of existence, and as such, ...

On the materiality of Black Atlantic rituals / Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders -- Reconstructing the archaeology of movement in northern Ghana : insights into past ritual posture and performance ...

Exhibition review of African twilight: vanishing rituals and ceremonies of the African continent in Art times (Cape Town) November 2018, pages 50-58. AFA volumes 1 and 2 are gifts from Carol Beckwith.

In today’s world, a DNA swab and lab analysis can settle paternity questions in a few days. But before modern science reached Africa’s villages, communities relied on older, more spiritual and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A baptism ceremony in the Mbashe river in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images Water is a ...