On view at the New Orleans Museum of Art from April 4 through August 10, the exhibition will then embark on parallel tours to venues in North America and Africa.

By the early 1970s, WCHB’s founders realized that the station could do more for jazz by fully committing to the genre. So, in ...

Somiari-StewartVeteran journalist and Griot Linda Somiari-Stewart presents “Woyingi: God Is a Woman” and “The Legend of Tari-Ere: The Picky Virgin,” two compelling works that bring African ...

Val Gray Ward was a force of nature – a groundbreaking actress and fearless matriarch of the Black Arts Movement. Founder of ...

Long, Ph.D. More than 30 students from the Beginning Theatre Arts classes at Carver Nation and the Carver Drama Club ...

Choublak, a new Haitian restaurant, is opening in the Railroad Square Food Hall. Owner Barbara Auxere hopes the restaurant ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Amadou Ndiaye holds a Braille tablet in Bamako, Mali, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo ...

The West African country, with a population of over 20 million people ... The guitar is an integral part of Mali’s griot tradition, the cultural practice of storytelling through music. Musicians ...

“Anything you try can work.” Where it is not racked by war, military coups or jihadism, much of Africa is battling economic stagnation and double-digit inflation rates. Ivory Coast, a country ...

Steeped in the storytelling tradition of Rural Appalachia and West African Griots, and fresh from a multi-state Appalachian tour, in Gloaming, Nowhere Streible, embodying the enigmatic storyteller ...

Steeped in the storytelling tradition of Rural Appalachia and West African Griots, and fresh from a multi-state Appalachian tour, in Gloaming, Nowhere Streible, embodying the enigmatic storyteller ...