Begin by parting freshly washed hair into sections. “Make sure the hair is de-tangled using a paddle brush and a wide-toothed ...

Democrats have reintroduced federal legislation to ban hair discrimination. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) reintroduced the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural ...

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the ...

I was shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor.When I think ...

South African stars from ‘The Last Ranger’ dazzle on the Oscars red carpet, showcasing their cultural heritage.

One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio.

Modern Brazil is what it is today - the foods, the religious traditions, and, of course, the music - in large part because of its African roots ... of those slaves were Bantu.

On his second album, Selaocoe plays many of his own compositions, some of them rooted in African tradition, others drawing from the baroque repertoire that he’s felt drawn to since he was a child.

Cornrow styles mirroring maps led to the village of San Basilio de Palenque in the 1600s, making it the first free African town in both North and South America. The popular looks are still worn to ...