Afro-Venezuelan heritage and Catholic traditions came together during Saint John’s Day celebrations in the town of Ocumare de la Costa on Monday and Tuesday (June 23 & 24).

We feature powerful performances from musicians from the Caribbean side of Venezuela, the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, and we explore Afro-Cuban spiritual music made by Puerto Rican santeros.

Mariah Carey’s late mother Patricia faced discrimination from her neighbours and the community when she married Alfred Roy Carey – so who was the singer’s dad and what do we know about him?

So much so that the tragic 2017 lynching of a dark-skinned Afro-Venezuelan grocery worker Orlando Figuera by the opposition thugs was entirely predilected on the typecasting of him as a Chavista ...

The songwriter and singer is the youngest of three children. Her mother was an opera singer and vocal coach of Irish descent, and her father was an aeronautical engineer with Afro-Venezuelan roots ...

Now, former President Hugo Chávez claimed African ancestry, and in 2005, he established May 10 as Afro-Venezuelan Day. And that date marks the start of a 1795 revolt by enslaved people against ...