La Jolla Playhouse recently opened a production of Jocelyn Bioh's Tony Award-winning play "Jaja's African Hair Braiding." Set in a Harlem hair braiding salon, the story explores love, family, ...

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Boston’s Museum of African American History has transported people to the past, letting visitors to a 200-year-old meeting house see where abolitionists like Frederick Douglass spoke and walk through ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” ...

The marshy interior of southern Louisiana is home to a cuisine, language and sound all its own. Today, Cajun and Zydeco music ...

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Despite the movie being set in the Mississippi Delta, Ryan headed to the neighboring state of Louisiana to film, where the cast and crew were sometimes subjected to working in blazing temperatures of ...

The idea that this country has become one big, bland, conformist culture ... the African Americans, the Creoles, the Spanish, things like that. Joel Savoy: It's also a social music.

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Wright Museum of African American ... music, including a future piece for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. April is National Jazz Appreciation Month, and the city of Detroit’s Office of Arts ...