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Russians, Americans Build Musical Bridges

In the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the Yale Russian Chorus came to Moscow to break the ice between the Soviet Union and the United States. Fast forward 50 years and Americans and Russians are once again using music to defr [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2013 | Comments : 0

UT Arlington Islamic Art and Culture Forum focuses on Americ...

ARLINGTON, Texas – Billie Holiday’s wavy intonation has its roots in the Muezzin’s call to prayer, scholars say. The syncopated riffs and rhythms of blues guitar legend John Lee Hooker echo a traditional call and respons [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

5th graders learn about their own Native American culture

Ironically, the 5th graders are assigned a unit about People of the Plains as a part of their curriculum. This always leaves me scratching my head because my class, Native American Studies, is pretty much all about the People of the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

The Museum for African American History and Culture

A rendering view of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is scheduled to open in 2015. The museum’s design is the result of an intense collaboration among Phil Freelon and two other black architects [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Mpls Schools Celebrate Native American Culture

There are Native American drummers, fry bread cooks and dancers in the Minneapolis schools for the district's annual celebration of American Indian culture. The district says Thursday is Native American Family Involvement Day, which a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Silicon Valley Gold Thieves Target Indian-Americans

A husband, wife and their 6-year-old son had just returned from the airport to their suburban home in Fremont. It was a sunny Sunday afternoon, Sept. 11, as they unloaded luggage from their car. Seemingly out of nowhere, two men appeared, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Pow Wow opens eyes to Native American culture

The crisp fall air and changing landscape was the perfect backdrop this weekend for the two-day Harvest Pow Wow event held at the Naper Settlement. The 17th annual event was presented by the Midwest SOARRING Foundation, a not-for-profit g [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Kwanzaa celebrates African-American culture

As 2010 draws to an end, for many it’s a time to reflect on the year, take stock and look forward to ways to improve life in the next. That’s one of the basics of Kwanzaa, a secular holiday established in 1966 that celebrates [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Distinctive American Culture

What struck me when I read Limbaugh’s statement was not his remark about American culture being “under assault from within.” After all, this is more or less what Lowry and Ponnuru claimed about Obama seven months [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

American Culture

Family Tradition We teach our children about American Culture. We teach them to be good Americans by sharing our traditions of Citizenship, American Holiday Celebration, Craftsmanship, Entrepreneurship, Competition, Leadership, Know- [...]

Posted On : Jul, 12 2007 | Comments : 0

A Native American pow wow

A pow wow is a gathering of Native Americans, usually from one or more tribes for several days of ritual singing and dancing. The name derives from ‘powwaw’, a Narragansett Indian word meaning spiritual leader. The event [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2007 | Comments : 0

native american rituals

Native American tribes had their own unique beliefs and rituals. Children who had attained puberty were made to undergo rigorous rites of passage. This helped to prepare them for the hardships of life and also attuned them to the spiritua [...]