The World Bank Board of Directors has approved the Bahia State Sustainable Infrastructure Program, an initiative aimed ...

Many of Maricel E. Presilla’s fans know the Cuban-born James Beard Award–winning chef from her restaurants, including ...

Capoeira, an art form created by enslaved Africans in colonial Brazil, lives on today in a new studio space downtown.

The culture of El Salvador, Argentina and Brazil's quilombola communities are focus of separate events over the weekend.

Capoeira, which fuses martial arts, dance, music, acrobatics, and philosophy, was developed by enslaved Africans in Brazil as ...

The same sly spirit of rebellion permeates Gomes’s sculptures, which range from bulbous pendulums that dangle from the ...

Trinity Episcopal welcomes professor of organ at the University of Michigan in a recital for the Catherine Crozier Memorial Series. The program includes several rarely heard works including Marcel ...

On Easter Sunday, the soul of Lagos Island stirred to life. The Fanti Carnival surged through its storied streets like a river of memory and music—drums pounding like ancestral heartbeats, dancers ...

Grammy award-winning jazz musician Zaccai Curtis and his accompanying sextet came to the College this past weekend for a day ...

The theme is broad—it’s about questioning the very notion of humanity,” curator Thiago de Paula Souza told Observer.

Curated by Danny Dunson, the DuSable Black History Museum exhibition will showcase Nazareno's unique art which merges ...

Lagos Island came alive on Easter Sunday as the Fanti Carnival made its much-anticipated return, rekindling the vibrant Afro-Brazilian heritage that has long been a cornerstone of the city’s cultural ...