Cuba is destined to be blighted by problems unless authorities make changes. That was the prediction of practitioners of Santeria, the Afro-Cuban tradition in Cuba. (AP/Ariel Fernández and Milexsy ...

An exciting musical event is set to take place at Tucson's new venue, La Rosa, featuring the vibrant Afro-Cuban piano ...

Editor’s note: This story was first published in March. We’re featuring it again in light Fidel Castro’s death. On his first day in Cuba, President Barack Obama walked to the center of the Plaza de ...

Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Zahili Zamora shares music that celebrates her background. Pianist and vocalist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora, electric bassist and vocalist Gerson Lazo-Quiroga, drummer ...

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.

Cimafunk, a 35-year-old musician dubbed a "global ambassador" for Cuban music, has earned Grammy nominations three years in a row. Blending genres from Latin rock to Afro-Cuban funk, he creates his ...

In 1954, Cuban writer and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera published “El Monte,” a groundbreaking study of Afro-Cuban spirituality and oral traditions. Cabrera devoted her life to documenting the Lucumí ...

Grammy-nominated Cuban musician Cimafunk is bringing his Afro-Cuban rhythms and Black American funk energy to West Palm Beach this Friday. Dubbed the James Brown of Cuba, Cimafunk — who has jammed ...

Part of the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative. "From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1880s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, this book ...

1. Race and Class in Cuba Before 1850 -- 2. Reassembling African Cabildos in the New World -- 3. Synthesizing Sacred and Secular Worlds and Roles -- 4. Inventing a Political Culture -- 5. Fighting for ...

Bradley Simmons, instructor of music and director of the Duke Djembe and Afro-Cuban Ensembles, is remembered for his deep knowledge of African drumming traditions, exceptional musicianship and ...

NEW YORK CITY — A 21-year-old South Florida star is shining in a five-time Tony-award-winning Broadway musical centered on a love of Cuban music that transcends politics. Wesley Wray, a University of ...