Gary Burke looked on proudly in his Civil War-era U.S. Colored Troops uniform as Juneteenth festivities unfolded at the Tennessee State Museum. He watched as the Sankofa African Drum and Dance group ...

Joining him is the magnetic LaTasha Barnes, an award-winning dancer, choreographer, and scholar celebrated for her work bridging African American vernacular dance forms with technology ...

Charlotte Bariteau, a dance major from Louisville, Kentucky, has always had a deep connection to movement. "I technically started taking classes when I was two," Charlotte shares, recalling the early ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites Americ… ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio --Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will be at Playhouse Square for three performances, Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 1. The company’s U.S. tour, which kicks off in ...

If you ask a similar question of an LLM (as I did above) things actually seem to have gotten much better than they are in society at large (or at least the Princeton students of 2012).

Lizzo slams white people for picking up African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and bashing Black people, the originators, for using it. She called for it to be gatekept.

Tracey Weldon, who worked as a linguist in higher education for nearly 30 years, said African American Vernacular English shares certain features like multiple negation ("she ain’t got no money ...

African descendants in the U.S. have been speaking varieties of English, today known as African American Language (AAL), for many centuries. Here's what you should know.