I’ve written about and performed the well-known and beloved African-American wedding ritual of ‘jumping the broom.’ Just to recap, it comes from the time when slaves, who were not allowed to marry, ...

Exhibition review of African twilight: vanishing rituals and ceremonies of the African continent in Art times (Cape Town) November 2018, pages 50-58. AFA volumes 1 and 2 are gifts from Carol Beckwith.

(RNS) — A new photo book from the National Museum of African American History and Culture explores Black history through its range of spiritual traditions. (RNS) — A newly published collection of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A baptism ceremony in the Mbashe river in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images Water is a ...

HAMPTON — Under a red sun, seagulls’ calls and the scent of burning sage wafted past foamy waves breaking on the warm Buckroe Beach sand just after dawn Friday. Occasionally echoed by music from a ...

Art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Known as Asen, forged iron ...