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A powerful reflection on Black Music Month, sankofa, soul, Blackness, Africanness, culture, struggle, freedom, and the sacred ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

Exploring the Soul is the follow up to Smooth Africa (Heads Up, 2000) which touted the genre displayed as a journey: "The perception of dark Africa can only be overcome by visiting the wonderful ...

Masekela, who died in 2018, was a symbol of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. He performed around the world, including at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Originally broadcast in 1988. This is ...

What makes thousands of people across Africa sing every lyric to an R&B song as if it belongs to their own story? Across the continent, R&B has quietly become one of the strongest cultural bridges ...

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display ...

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.

For the first time, African music will have its own category at the Grammys. The Recording Academy will showcase three new categories for this year’s awards, including “Best African Music Performance” ...

Historically, African Americans and Jewish Americans have banded together during times of political unrest for social change. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked with leaders across all faiths to ...