Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside a gymnasium at the Linden Community Center in Columbus, Elton Brasil and Joseph Lewis greet their students as they warm up ...

The two fighters prowl rhythmically to the sound of a percussive beat. When one strikes, the other anticipates, moving back on his hands and trying to sweep his opponent's legs out with a swivel kick, ...

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One of the important changes enacted by Afro-Brazilian activist groups and legislators in recent years was the mandatory incorporation of black history and culture into school curriculums. Perhaps the ...

The rhythmic whir of Brazilian music and traditional Portuguese chanting lasted for hours one recent Thursday night in downtown San José’s Parque Morazán. A crowd circled around the group of musicians ...

Hip-hop beats from the class next door slip through the Capoeira Evolução studio walls. "Don't worry, we'll drown them out in a few minutes," says capoeira instructor Alex Rodriguez. In minutes, a ...

Brazil is well known as the home of the dance-like martial art capoeira, but its roots in fact lie across the Atlantic. In Angola, one man is trying to resurrect an older style to help people ...

Mestre Joao Grande is a 78-year-old master of the black Brazilian martial art called capoeira -- a rich blend of music, dance and ritualized combat. Enslaved Africans brought the roots of capoeira ...

LITTLE HAITI (CBSMiami) – Capoeira is described as a story of celebration and the ability to express oneself. It involves music, fighting, dancing, intuition, rich history and breaking a sweat.

MOLE, Democratic Republic of the Congo – It is midday at Mole refugee camp, and the sun is high as a group of refugees start playing capoeira on the red brown earth. Rhythmic beats fill the air as the ...