NEW YORK -- Moko Jumbie is a style of traditional African dance where performers dance on stilts high above the ground. The practice almost went extinct after being brought to the Caribbean, until it ...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Shynel Brizan remembers her first Kings and Queens of Carnival competition like it was yesterday. It was 2012. She was 19 years old and still relatively new to the moko ...
Five young men from Brooklyn are continuing the tradition of stilt walking at the West Indian American Day Carnival. The "moko jumbies" are all of Trinidadian descent and believe the tradition is a ...
From Canada to Rio — on just about every continent there's some kind of Carnival celebration. It's known as the world's biggest celebration. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, Carnival is a birthright. "I ...
NEW YORK -- Moko Jumbie is a style of traditional African dance where performers dance on stilts high above the ground. The practice almost went extinct after being brought to the Caribbean, until it ...