Ordinary men and women came under attack in the 17th Century ... American soldiers exported the jitterbug during World War Two. Like the Charleston, it was based on an African-American dance ...

a master teacher of Umfundalai — a contemporary African and African-American dance technique. Ericka Squire said it’s all part of a growing demand for more dance education and community-led ...

Music and dance ... the end of the century. As song and theater changed, so did Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the 1870s, the Fisk University Jubilee Singers popularized African American spirituals.

Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Born a slave ... was bitterly opposed by some African American intellectuals, most notably W.E.B ...

She was also the founding director IU's African-American Dance Company. After the pandemic, Santiago, who never had a studio ...

Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth ... and Caribbean American colonies. Unlike in Brazil or Cuba direct African infusions into black American culture were much less pronounced in ...