DanceAfrica 2024 kicked off Memorial Day weekend with a vibrant celebration of African and diasporic cultures, shining a spotlight on the rich heritage of Cameroon. DanceAfrica...
By Bernice Elizabeth GreenWhat attracts audiences to BAM’s DanceAfrica year after year are the quality performances and the fullness of an experience that is beyond entertainment.And...
May 7 (thru May 26): Brooklyn Academy of Music’s47th DanceAfrica Immersive BeginsBAM’s DanceAfrica, the largest of its kind in the nation, celebrates the dynamic, rich tapestry...
B. Elizabeth GreenBAM’s DanceAfrica 2024: The nation’s largest salute to African and African Diasporic dance, music, arts traditions and their global impact, returns to the Brooklyn...
May 26—May 29, 2023 – DanceAfrica Performance 2023 – Dance | Music “This festival heals, pumps up, and moves one to tears.”—Dance EnthusiastThis Memorial Day weekend,...
By Fern GillespieWhen Dr. Raymond Codrington, President and CEO of Weeksville Heritage Center, was invited by Trinity College to view...
Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s first woman Vice President will go down in the history books as the first...
NYPL will honor one of its most legendary patrons with exhibitions at libraries he frequented, along with programming and book...
By Mary Alice MillerMost Black Americans have heard that after the Civil War, former chattel slaves were promised 40 acres...
By Col. (Ret.) Edna W. Cummings,U.S. ArmySpecial to the AFRO“All last night, guns shook on the ground on which I...
Eulogy delivered by Ossie Davisat the funeral of Malcolm XFaith Temple Church of GodFebruary 27, 1965“Here – at this final...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change, and maybe Brooklyn can lead the way. The population in NYC who...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change. “Now is the time” Rev. Jesse Jackson famously said to mobilize the...