Inbox: Howard University announces the Showtime Marching Band will escort Vice President Kamala Harris at the 59th presidential inauguration on Jan. 20. They will perform a special drum cadence ...

It’s the heartbeat of the marching band, and it is known as the drumline. Drumlines are the percussion section of the marching band, but they are so much more to band members and audiences alike.

Residents peeked their heads out of bedroom windows as our drumline and that of Spirit of 52, a marching band from Germany, had a drum-off, each line playing a drum cadence followed by a solo. Once ...

Our piece was sort of the marching band version of that. It was a simple series of chords with a propulsive drum cadence underneath, repeated three times, louder each time. Man.

Drum lines and marching bands are deeply ingrained in the culture of America’s historically black colleges and universities.