On an August evening on the second floor of the Fitness Works gymnasium in Detroit’s New Center, a dance class is in full swing as six women step up a storm. They make sweeping movements with their ...

In a world that often tries to label African women, the film Black Women and Sex lets them write their own stories. This ...

The strong bond that Crystal Boyce has with her dance students is easy to see — even through the screen of a tablet. During a sunny afternoon in late May, she hosted a Zoom class for a handful of ...

ATLANTA — Spelman students took community members on what they called a “herstorical” journey of empowerment through African dance. The Department of Dance Performance and Choreography at Spelman ...

Sherrie Silver remembers when her 4-year-old self was “just a girl playing in the village with my friends, no father, and not much hope, just dreams, and God,” she said from the stage at the inaugural ...

Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective, the esteemed street dance company founded by Michele Byrd-McPhee in 2004, presented The Black Dancing Bodies Project: SpeakMyMind at the Orpheum Performing Arts ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — When Mirabel Fonyuy Umeni moved to West Michigan from Africa, her experience was like so many others. The career and life she led in her home country didn't translate here. But ...

Mthuthuzeli November was determined to get out of his impoverished home town. Now he has his work alongside George Balanchine ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The African National Congress (ANC) has governed South Africa since the ...

Controversial Governor of Imo State is in the news again and this time social media users are having fun with his reaction to some Female dancers at the ongoing Calabar Carnival. Governor Rochas’ ...