As Juneteenth approaches, a new exhibit at the Black Archives of Mid-America is educating visitors on a long-standing tradition.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) - Palm Springs Unified School District African American class of 2025 graduates were honored and presented with Kente Stoles Monday evening. The stoles will be worn ...

The Sankofa Foundation will host its first “Kente Ball” gala fundraiser celebrating African arts and cuisine on Saturday, April 26, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in ...

On Saturday, March 22, Sankofa Foundation will host their inaugural fundraising gala, the Kente Ball featuring West African food and a live art auction at the Gaylord with proceeds going to ...

The members, dressed in West African kente cloth to protest Trump after reports he called some African nations "shithole countries," sat stone-faced and unmoved. “Unemployment claims have ...

The Conversation Africa spoke to African art and culture researcher Dickson Adom about the origins of this world famous textile. What is Asante kente and why is it unique? Asante kente is a cloth ...

My findings affirm that the Asante kente at Bonwire is distinctly Asante. The popular view that it is a generally African cloth is flawed. My study found that the historical origins of Asante ...

The recent inscription of Kente fabric, among other African items and practices into Unesco’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity is a milestone in the global ...

Kente, Ghana’s famous hand-woven cloth has become the best-known and most widely recognized of all African textiles. For Ghanaians, kente cloth epitomizes the finest creativity; far transcending ...

Despite Loua’s love of Kente, a traditional fabric found in Ghana and parts of West Africa, this collection marked a turning point in the brand. For the first time, he didn’t build it around ...

The show aims to draw out a mosaic of stories from the African diaspora — a term for ... The American-born designer Patrick Kelly worked a kente-cloth print into taper-leg trousers.Credit ...