For this author, grief is physical, and healing had to be as well. She found comfort in Cuban Vodú, a variant of Santeria incorporating dance.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and head of the Cuban foreign affairs ministry, recalled today on X ...

We, three African American and one Black Cuban women researchers, used a roundtable approach to analyse our experiences in Cuba. Using our individual reflections as data, the four of us sought to make ...

The influence of Afro-Cuban music in Cuban culture will be high on the agenda of the 40th Jazz Plaza International Festival ...

Cuban men and women who embrace their Afro-descended heritage and hair ... “You have to understand the emotional and psychological side, the cultural effects, the historic reclaiming of our ...

The rhythmic pulse of New Orleans jazz merged seamlessly with Afro-Cuban beats on the streets of Havana last month.

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 ...

A young Cuban woman has captured the hearts of thousands on social media by fulfilling a promise to Our Lady of Charity, the ...

Initially, this work took the form of documentary films that profiled the African roots of Cuban music, a form of cultural expression saturated with a sensibility of resistance. Then, in the 1970s, ...

A Cuban mother has touched the hearts of many social media users by fulfilling a promise to Saint Lazarus while carrying her child and progressing on ...

Music is at the heart of Cuba’s culture, and Cuba’s African heritage is at the core of its music. Unlike in North America, where drumming was often banned in slave communities, “in Cuba ...

Gillespie and Machito Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods The elements of music to consider Performing and composing ideas The impact of Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods ...