Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

Heritage pride in the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro is just one important symbol of a 3,000-plus-word legacy that is still ...

There are some 450 known languages in the Bantu family from Gikuyu in the north to Setswana in the south. There is evidence of similar pottery technology in eastern, southern and western Africa.

The South African cellist follows up his debut album Where is Home with a vibrant new release spanning African musical ...

Actress Marsai Martin styled her knotless box braids into sleek Bantu knots for a red carpet. Two braids at the top of her head were left down for a face-framing effect. Singer Tinashe shows that ...

“We are not scared of anybody. If we wanted to fight, we could have targeted the people that are behind this, but we did not ...

KAHN: A million African slaves came through Rio ... And the institute says at least 60% of those slaves were Bantu. "Our history is not very well known," he says. "The city was built right ...

One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio. KUOW is ...