a West African deity, and BLM leader Patrisse Cullors has talked about the importance of ancestral African spirituality to the movement. The comfort and identification these traditions offer ...

Shantrelle P. Lewis is a curator, filmmaker, and Yuroba practitioner from New Orleans, who began her journey into West African spirituality during a trip to Brazil. “I’ve been a practitioner ...

More than 400 years later, surrealist Salvador Dalí depicted the Crucifixion on a hypercube cross, a blend of science and spirituality ... casts Jesus as a West African savior and sets the ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

In a joyful expression of West African culture through dance, music and storytelling, the youth and professional dance companies from Thiossane West African Dance Institute will showcase the ...