When Rissa Delaquil was growing up in a small town on the Hawaiian island of Maui, children played outside until the wee hours, ate at neighbors' houses and called all the women on their street ...

To learn more about the negative impact of people dressing up as hula dancers, BuzzFeed recently spoke to Chelei. "Hula dancers are greatly sexualized in the entertainment industry and Hollywood ...

My grandmother, a beautiful hula dancer. Hula runs in my blood. When my Papa saw my Grandma Becky dancing hula one night in a dance hall, armed with her ukulele, mu'u mu'u, and beautiful smile, he ...

As the women built a thrumming rhythm from their drums and began to chant while others danced, the Hula Halau ‘O Nalua and ‘Ote’a ‘Api School of Polynesian Dance seemed to teleport from the interior ...

After the world’s most popular hula event was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Maui’s Cierra Mei Ling Hau’olimaikalani Pagaduan Chow was honored to step onstage again for the 58th ...

KAIELUA, Hawaii — Among my career aspirations, it is safe to say that “hula dancer” never rose to the top. But there I was not long ago, lunching on fish tacos at a tiny shopping plaza on the island ...

In Hawaiian, mana wahine translates to “powerful women,” and as a panel of experts worked to select Hawaii’s Women of the Century, they kept coming back to this phrase. Did this woman motivate and ...