Call him the Caribbean Spider-Man. Anancy, the tricky spider at the heart West African and Caribbean folklore, will be celebrated at the daylong Anancy festival at the South Regional Broward College ...

'Embracing us in this way makes it easier for us to blend in' Patois for “Father of the Forest,” this beloved character is the protector of nature. Half-man, half-goat, he is fast and strong, and ...

For over 400 years Caribbean societies have been made and re-made through planet-wide migrations; the regions peoples and cultural forms (music, literature, dance and cuisine) proliferate out to the ...

“The Braata Singers: Still Standing,” an Off-Broadway celebration commemorating the 15th anniversary of the beloved Caribbean cultural ensemble, will hold its final performance of Caribbean music and ...

The official launch party for "Callaloo: A Jazz Folktale" is underway at the Anacostia Community Museum. But like the traditional Caribbean leaf vegetable dish from which the book takes its name — ...

"Plot does not come easily to me" are not the words you'd expect to hear from Nalo Hopkinson, a fixture of the sci-fi and fantasy genres. But for the Jamaican Canadian writer, known for crafting ...

The uproar over Disney casting Halle Bailey as the Little Mermaid overlooks generations of Caribbean and African folklore. By Tracey Baptiste Ms. Baptiste is a novelist. See more of our coverage in ...