The Yoruba saying, “Die die ni alak’orun ndi ewu,” which roughly translates into English as “gradually, a singlet becomes a formal dress,” means that things happen in stages. Like Ethiopia’s “Creeping ...

The 1980s remain one of the favorite eras in rock music. With a wide variety of music, these are three of the most empowering rock songs ever released, which all came out in 1985.

The men’s race, however, was no runaway. American Nathan Martin, 36, chased down a fading Michael Kamau of Kenya to win the ...

Jazz rhythms come through the synthesizers like an ancient artifact being resurrected by modern technology. Of course, those rhythms have never gone anywhere close to being extinct. But when paired ...

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The dozen students in Leon Smith’s Advanced Placement African American Studies class were analyzing Countee Cullen’s conflicted emotions about his ancestral homeland of Africa in his poem, “Heritage.” ...

Residents living near Lega Dembi mine, located in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, have complained of serious health impacts for ...

Meet Lucy's hunter, a massive, horned crocodile that likely terrorized early human ancestors in ancient Ethiopia.

Before making her upcoming sixth album, the country star returned to her small-town Texas home and discovered the power of in-between spaces. "I found a lot of clarity there," she says.

Dr. Reid Adams has been named UVa Health's inaugural chief medical officer. The scandal-rocked health system says he will ...

The moment became a striking illustration of something my research keeps returning to: how music can carry the moral codes of ...