A Mournful Womanâs Magic Calls Forth Slavery Times
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In âConjur Woman,â a folk opera for a single performer, the venerable actress Sheila Dabney creates a potent spell seasoned with the power of myth.
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Cuba held a day of mourning Tuesday for Vilma Espin Guillois, the guerrilla who became the most powerful woman in the revolution that propelled her brother-in-law Fidel Castro to power.
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PRESQUE ISLE, Maine  - Ann Hayes says she is  surrounded by angels.
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A contemporary art exhibition marking the bicentenary of the outlawing of the British slave trade has opened in London, part of a season of such events throughout the country.
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In Charlayne Woodard's latest theater piece "Flight," she draws on the rich oral tradition of African-American folk tales to tell the story of one black community's way of dealing with the ravages of slavery prior to the Civil War.
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Reader Winnie Abraham shares her picture with us.
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Events of the day entangled many of us in an emotional lost and found.
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Many ministries and congregations in the growing African diaspora in the United States and abroad are grappling with witchcraft.
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The family of a woman whose remains were stolen ask God to forgive the "evil" perpetrators.
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Mayra Nieve is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe.
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Susan Lampert Smith Wisconsin State Journal With so many large tragedies going on in the world, it&#39;s easier to comprehend the small sadness of change.
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Painful recollections of a bygone eraÂs racism have emerged with the excavation of an old Mississippi mill townÂs pool.
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Working-class people, women especially, were this modernist authorâs concernâshe was an avant-gardist with a heart.
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The piece offers a notable transformation of physical detail into a persuasive choreographic metaphor for the loss of self.
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By Carla McClain, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 18--For eons, humans have been fascinated and mystified by the cord that ties a mother to her unborn baby.
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Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade. Similar observances have since spread around the world.
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With the help of an American collector, a glass houseâs enchanting secrets are revealed.