From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside. They watch ...

All this week, Morning Edition is talking about drums and drummers. The third installment in "Beat Week" explores the beats used in Afro-Cuban Santería ceremonies. Our guide is Felix Contreras, ...

It’s a New Year tradition in Cuba: the "Letter of the Year" from the Santería priests. Dressed in their characteristic white, religious followers played drums and danced around an altar in Havana on ...

A recent federal court ruling cast an unusually sympathetic gaze on Santería, a family of Afro-Caribbean cultural and religious practices that most Americans learn about (or imagine they learn about) ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The worshipers flock from Miami, Venezuela, Brazil and other far-flung destinations on their pilgrimage into the heartland of the tribal faith. Alexandre Texiera Ramos flew from São Paolo to Lagos, ...

Animal sacrifice for religious purposes is a protected right, but leaving the carcasses behind is not. Former Culture and Hillsborough Reporter The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of ...

Just when you think you know a lot about Cuban music, along comes a pair of musicians who tell me one that of the major influences on their pioneering jazz/rock/santeria band was Queen. Yes, that ...

Luego de consagrarse como ganador del Desafío Siglo XXI, Anthony Zambrano volvió a ser tema de conversación, no solo por su ...

José Entenza Montalvo, a babalawo, or priest, shows the faded handwritten books, some more than a century old, where special knowledge of medicinal herbs and plants and the names of those initiated as ...