Kids and conga were right on beat Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Conga Kids spring Dance Championship moved its way through downtown’s Microsoft Square, where Conga Kids danced away using their ...

Brad Gluckstein, owner of downtown Los Angeles music venue the Conga Room, estimates that 20 years down the road, the average fifth grader will remember approximately four things from that fleeting ...

WOODLAND HILLS>> Taye Sangkhae and Vanessa Freigher may have been the shortest dance pair rehearsing at their school Tuesday for the Conga Kids Dance Championship at L.A. Live on Wednesday. But these ...

On a recent Monday morning, as most fifth graders were studying math and English, a group of 10- and 11-year-olds at Knox Elementary School in South L.A. were learning something else: how to train and ...

Montague is the top-ranked Division 6 high school football team in the state and it sits among MLive’s Top 50 for all divisions. The Wildcats (4-0) are playing some good football and they’re having a ...

In 1917, Ramon Santamaria Rodriquez was born into poverty in Havana, Cuba. Nicknamed “Mongo” (a tribal chief in Senegal), he began playing the conga drum at an early age and as a teen, Mongo ...