Priests and priestesses of the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santería have offered gifts to deities and asked for peace as ...

Cuba is destined to be blighted by problems unless authorities make changes. That was the prediction of practitioners of Santeria, the Afro-Cuban tradition in Cuba. (AP/Ariel Fernández and Milexsy ...

Afro-Cuban Santeros perform ceremonies to ask for peace and health during regional conflict. View on euronews ...

Editor’s note: This story was first published in March. We’re featuring it again in light Fidel Castro’s death. On his first day in Cuba, President Barack Obama walked to the center of the Plaza de ...

Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Zahili Zamora shares music that celebrates her background. Pianist and vocalist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora, electric bassist and vocalist Gerson Lazo-Quiroga, drummer ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

An exciting musical event is set to take place at Tucson's new venue, La Rosa, featuring the vibrant Afro-Cuban piano ...

Cimafunk, a 35-year-old musician dubbed a "global ambassador" for Cuban music, has earned Grammy nominations three years in a row. Blending genres from Latin rock to Afro-Cuban funk, he creates his ...

Part of the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative. "From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1880s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, this book ...

In 1954, Cuban writer and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera published “El Monte,” a groundbreaking study of Afro-Cuban spirituality and oral traditions. Cabrera devoted her life to documenting the Lucumí ...

1. Race and Class in Cuba Before 1850 -- 2. Reassembling African Cabildos in the New World -- 3. Synthesizing Sacred and Secular Worlds and Roles -- 4. Inventing a Political Culture -- 5. Fighting for ...