KINDER, La. — The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is hosting their annual "Koasati Heritage Day" to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. The celebration will include traditional dances, language ...

“Over 500 years ago, my tribe arrived on the shores of India from Africa,” says the social worker narrator of Asha Stuart’s Lost Tribe of Africa. His ancestors fled enslavement, escaping into the ...

Bodies, voices and drums blended and exploded with frenzied energy as the Boka N’deye Pan African Drum and Dance Company brought “Festival Africaine!” to Hayden Hall Saturday night. Performing the ...

From the Nicholas Brothers to Gregory Hines, Savion Glover to the Alvin Ailey dancers, some of the world’s most influential hoofers are of African descent. The origins of their incredible movements ...

Last Saturday, the audience at the Barbara Barker Center for Dance at the University of Minnesota got a taste of West Africa from the Bangouras, an immensely talented family from Guinea whose ...

Dingaka may mark a trend of sorts. Most made-in-Africa melodramas use throbbing tom-toms and tribal dances merely as an exotic backdrop for the doings of great white hunters, drunken missionaries, or ...

LOSKOP, South Africa -- New farmers are turning the soil to profit in South Africa's old tribal homelands as Pretoria speeds the transfer of land from whites to blacks. Land is an emotive issue in ...

The Gila River Indian Community has issued a temporary ban on dances after a tribal police officer was fatally shot and another wounded while responding to a reported disturbance at a Santan home, ...

"The instruments used in this recording are called: tama, banta, tcha tcha, gamba, tin tin, baba, and sabar." Recorded Sept. 1952. Program notes by Jerry Newman on container. Performer(s): Sonar ...

East St. Louis’ artists foster African American dance legend Katherine Dunham's legacy. African American dance legend Katherine Dunham turned East St. Louis into an important hub of the Black Arts ...

The self-styled "African tribe" has been served with a second eviction notice Police have been urged to take a tougher stance on a self-styled "African tribe" who are camping in woodland in the ...