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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lagos Island burst into life on Sunday as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, alongside his wife, Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, led the city in ...

The annual international art fair, featuring contemporary works from more than 170 galleries, returns to Navy Pier’s Festival ...

Thousands of young and old descendants of formerly enslaved people donned elaborate costumes Sunday to bring the rhythm, ...

However, Joyce could not get a job when she went to interviews, and they discovered that she was Afro-Brazilian. She had no option but to follow her mother's path and clean houses. "(My mother) became ...