Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed today. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean ...

In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...

Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we ...

The coca plant has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and used for a variety of ritual, spiritual, and ...

Jack Glagola: It’s no surprise that you’re a Virginia icon, a Black icon, a man of many historic firsts. First Black Virginia ...

(SPAN 0220 or placement) 3 hrs. lect./disc. Quechua and Aymara people of the Andes, and the indigenous nations from the Lowlands have been key in grassroots movements in Bolivia in the 21st century.

The history of the disco band is littered with lineup changes, legal issues, and music-vibe shifts, but it's the association ...

In the Arizona desert, researchers are learning so much more about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity ...

Thanks to the transmission of our language, we have managed to survive,” explains Roger Kuyoc, who was born in Tizimín Yucatán, Mexico.

Presenting never-before-seen ephemera and the works of 19 contemporary Black artists, the Hammer Museum pays homage to the ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...