Between 1896 and 1907, Oxford University scholars Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt unearthed many papyrus fragments at the ...

A Haitian band is returning to Portsmouth next week to help raise money for a school in Haiti, according to a community announcement. Kandjanwou Rara — one of the few Rara bands based in New England — ...

French-Haitian artist Naïka pours herself into her joyfully multicultural music to create a “universe” for herself and her ...

Benin is little known for its influence on African popular music. It is better known as the home of vodun, an ancient ...

Canal Cheong Jagerroos discusses her multi-layered rice-paper works, the philosophy of "in-between" spaces, and her 2026 ...

During a service in Haiti several decades ago, a young boy would sing in front of a silent congregation. Unbeknownst to him, that first public performance would mark the beginning of a successful ...

Most people think about music as something that comes purely from the heart. A melody, a beat, a lyric born in a moment of inspiration. Honestly, that's true. But here's the thing: those moments of ...

Every Tuesday night for 15 years now, lovers of Haitian culture gather under strobe lights at a Lower East Side rooftop lounge to dance to kompa music from a variety of DJs. But there is a lot more ...

From Rap Kreyòl Pioneer to Philanthropist, Izolan Uses His Platform to Support Haiti’s Most Vulnerable Jean Léonard Tout‑Puissant—better known as Izolan—is one of Haiti’s most influential hip-hop ...

Black Cats already carry an air of mystery, but sometimes they take it to an entirely different realm, leaving us intrigued and confused. When certain sounds hit just right, their reactions can feel ...

The oldest known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are 430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human – perhaps the ancestors of ...