NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

The African American Voices Gospel Choir provides a space for students to come together to worship through song, dance, service and miming. The traditional gospel choir is a student organization that ...

The Soweto Gospel Choir from South Africa—which has performed with everyone from Bono and Diana Ross to Josh Groban and John Legend, and won an Emmy and two Grammys—is touring North America through ...

For Costa Mesa’s Debora Wondercheck, Juneteenth is a time for reflecting on the struggles endured by ancestors born into slavery, the advancements that led to their emancipation and the perseverance ...

Just as great pressure creates diamonds out of coal — the world’s largest diamonds come, after all, from South Africa — man’s injustice to his fellow man can paradoxically create great art: an art of ...

HOUSTON (AP) — When James Douglas told his teachers during career day in high school in the late 1950s that he wanted to be a lawyer, they didn’t believe his dreams could come true. “All of my ...