The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. When junior Kyle Deal kicked his girlfriend in the face, there were no hard ...

Clad all in white, dancers encircle in a roda, erupting into cartwheels and swing kicks near the Huntington Beach Pier. The movements blend into a fluid form of acrobatic non-contact fighting to the ...

“The best fight is the one you can talk your way out of.” Spoken like a true Brazilian, Domingos Begalli says he would prefer not to fight. He would prefer to duck punches and skirt danger. It’s this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a sunny, wood-floored studio space above the shops in Tacoma’s antique row lie the practitioners of a centuries-old cultural ...

Columbus instructors Elton Brasil and Joseph Lewis teach capoeira at three locations and aim to make classes affordable for all. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art combining music, dance, and ...

Africans enslaved in Brazil developed capoeira, a fighting style disguised to look like a dance. It was a way to defend themselves on the plantation or even to plan and carry out an escape. For its ...

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that was invented by slaves to disguise fighting with dance. Today it’s seen as a beautiful and soulful form of art, and it has caught on all over the world. Dalen ...