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.

Music has shaped cultures and communities throughout the world and has been passed down through generations to keep histories alive. It can amplify one’s attitudes and motivate change, which makes it ...

Sit back and unwind to the Afro-folk, Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean-inspired tunes of Doc Twang and The Key Ingredients of African Soul on Saturday, March 26 at Monterey Court Studio Galleries and ...

Thinking back on the biggest cultural moments of 2024, it’s hard to ignore the many African women who were at the center of it all. Over the past decade, global African music has been dominated by ...

Today we take it for granted that Black culture is mainstream American culture. But, before the age of hip-hop, cable TV, the internet, streaming, and mobile phones, African Americans basically had to ...

EDC is already the largest electronic dance music festival in North America, but that hasn’t stopped its organizers from raising the bar for a 2025 crowd that’s expected to rival the population of ...

February is Black History Month, and the Grand Rapids Public Library wants to give the public a little Taste Of Soul with its annual event by the same name. Taste of Soul Sunday is an annual event ...

Singer and multi-hyphenate creative powerhouse KLA has released a new single, “Peace”, a follow-up to her previous single “In ...

Sharon Katz playing the guitar. It is unusual when a person combines great talent with compassion for others, but South African musician Sharon Katz has both in spades. Music can soothe and heal the ...

Disney-Pixar's "Soul," currently streaming on Disney+, taps into a rich vein of African-American culture to tell the story of a Queens music teacher who dreams of becoming a great jazz musician. This ...

Manu Dibango, the acclaimed Cameroonian saxophonist whose 1972 hit, “Soul Makossa,” would later be sampled by Michael Jackson, Kanye West, and dozens of other musicians, died Tuesday due to ...