In a career spanning over 50 years of dance, choreographer Chuck Davis”Baba Chuck” to the dance communityhas been instrumental in bringing African dance to a number of unlikely venues for the first ...
Two dance traditions meet in the new world -- Black dance in the slavery era: the ring shout and buzzard lope -- Early Black festivals and Congo Square -- Solo percussive dance -- The minstrel show ...
A day of dance to celebrate Black American heritage, style and influence returns this weekend to Palm Beach County, at a time when arts organizations are still recovering from state arts cuts. Ericka ...
BEAUMONT, Texas — A Beaumont-area civic organization is celebrating Black History Month by honoring the African American origins of swing dancing, a dance form that traces its roots to Harlem in the ...
Celebrations across Nashville marked Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people. Gary Burke looked on proudly in his Civil War-era U.S. Colored Troops uniform as ...