As a name, Afro-Jersey conjured for me the image equivalent of a garage band, not I might add, a particularly serious one. Improbably transnational, or more specifically transcontinent-state which is ...

The inaugural Afro Nation Miami 2023 follows the success of the 2022 Afro Nation festivals in Portugal, Puerto Rico & Ghana. By Heran Mamo UPDATE (March 8): Fireboy DML, Sech and Mavado have been ...

Ethiopia's most popular musician Teddy Afro recently released a song criticizing the country's prime minister. And while the singer never mentions the prime minister by name, the implication is clear.

Afro Nation is heading to Miami for the first U.S. edition of the Afrobeats-focused music festival. The two-day event, dubbed “the world’s biggest Afrobeats festival,” will be headlined by Burna Boy ...

It's hard to pick just one song from La Reina de la Salsa, but this one is a true anthem. We're making her classic lyric "If you want to get there first, run slow and enjoy life" our new motto.

At the tail end of 2021, Adele released her long-awaited 30 album, giving fans the moody, stare-out-the-window-longingly soundtrack we'd been anticipating for an entire decade. Exactly eight days ...

Pandora has announced plans to roll out a new series of Latin music stations dedicated to music by black artists from various parts of Latin America. The first station in the series is Afro Colombia ...

Fifty years is a lifetime for some, but John Coltrane accomplished so much in his short life, having died at the age of 40 in 1967. On October 22, 1963, and November 2, of the same year, he was on a ...

Unidad Deportiva Alberto Galindo, a sports complex in Cali, Colombia, is home to what is affectionately called "El Petronio." For the last 27 years, hundreds of thousands of people have traveled to ...