Join for an enlightening discussion and demonstration by Carlos Mateu, a percussion artist, dancer, and musicologist in revealing the African roots of popular Latin music. He will lead us through live ...

As you grow up, your music tastes change. You hear a song that causes a chemical reaction in your brain and makes it feel emotions you weren't expecting. Reactions to music are some of the purest ...

This week the Ghanian musician Ebo Taylor died at 90 years old. While he was not well known in the U.S. he was a star in Africa, and a defining force in highlife music.

Of this season's Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, founder and executive director Charles Dickerson said 65% are ...

Ebo Taylor has died at 90. He was a world-renowned musician and composer of African highlife music, but it took decades for ...

Nov. 20 (UPI) --A New York woman's afro was certified as the world's largest -- measuring 6 feet, 2.87 inches in circumference -- and she was officially crowned by her predecessor. Aevin Dugas, who ...

With an Afro that is more than six feet in circumference, Jessica Martinez set a new Guinness record. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta Jessica Martinez was about 12 years old when she stopped using relaxers ...

Este Sábado o Rumba Colombiana @ Carbon Lounge SF Expect the usual: Great Music, Awesome people and lots of Fun This Saturday don't miss o Rumba Colombiana o Reggaeton Party @ Carbon Lounge SF This ...

What you noticed first was the circle. Not a literal one—the chairs sat in standard rows—but a social circle that materialized as soon as Arturo O'Farrill addressed the room. He joked, testified, and ...

A US accord that grants more than 1,800 products from 32 African nations duty-free access to the world’s biggest market expired Tuesday night, halting a decades-old program aimed at promoting ...

PAST ISSUES OF THE AFRO. SO WHEN YOU SEE 1947, IT’S FROM THE YEAR 1947. HISTORY FILLS THESE SHELVES, TELLING THE STORIES THAT BACK THEN WERE IGNORED BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. WHEN YOU OPEN THIS UP, YOU ...