WHAT: UC Davis will celebrate the opening of its Center for African Diaspora Student Success with a ceremony featuring African drumming and dancing. At the heart of the campus's new African-American ...

Editor's Note: This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities and their impact on our region. The series builds on The Star ...

You were born to the pulsing pound of your momma’s heart going thump. And today, the beat of a drum still brings you new life. Now multiply that phenomenon by 22, and you’ve got the estrogenergetic ...

The Rhythm Village Dance and Drum Ensemble, a local African dance troupe, invites the community to learn about West African dancing and drumming from a master in two classes today. The troupe, in ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

NO fewer than 20 states, 14 countries and 70 private troupes will converge on Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, for this year’s African Drum Festival designed to bring together Black people from ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.