The recent protests in Cuba mobilized thousands of people, making them the biggest demonstrations there in decades. While Cubans from all backgrounds took to the streets to demand better living ...

A pattern is starting to appear in Cimafunk’s album titles. The Afro-Cuban funk artist named his 2017 debut “Terapia,” or “Therapy,” and his 2021, Grammy-nominated follow-up was called “El Alimento,” ...

Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Zahili Zamora shares music that celebrates her background. Pianist and vocalist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora, electric bassist and vocalist Gerson Lazo-Quiroga, drummer ...

The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans. But 65 years later, religion seems ...

What does it mean to be Black? People will argue that it is a shared experience of culture and treatment based on appearance, ancestral lineage, language and more. When asked the same question of what ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Cimafunk to talk about how he's created his singular sound, the complex African lineage of his... Cimafunk: How his Afro-Cuban funk tells a bigger ...

Batey Tambó will perform at CubaCaribe, which runs at various venues in San Francisco March 28 to April 4. Credit: LexMex Over the past two decades, San Francisco’s CubaCaribe Festival of Dance & ...

You know, it's hard to believe that there are still people out there who don't know you can be Black and Latino at the same time, who aren't familiar with the history of the slave trade in Latin ...

See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9, PLUS and Passport schedules. Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor ...

Juan de Marcos & The Afro-Cuban All Stars at Miner Auditorium article by Steven Roby, published on November 18, 2025 at All ...

The end of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola fifty years ago was also the beginning of a Cuban military mission that had a major impact on the country’s history, beating back a South African invasion ...