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 ...

Edith Kanaka’ole, the late Native Hawaiian hula dancer, will appear on U.S. quarters next year, as part of a program by the United States Mint that honors notable women. Kanaka’ole was a composer, ...

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 ...

Twelve women between the ages of 18 and 25 took the stage Thursday night at Edith Kanaka‘ole Multi-Purpose Stadium in Hilo to compete for the most prestigious title a solo hula dancer can earn, Miss ...

Alema Ebana dances with his hula group, Hālau Kekuaokalāʻauʻalaʻiliahi, at the 2021 Merrie Monarch Festival. This hula told the story of the orator and athlete Naihe, whose skillfulness in surfing ...

The 61st Annual Merrie Monarch Festival shifted into high gear Wednesday night with the Ho‘ike, an exhibition of hula and folk dance from around the Pacific Rim at the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multi-Purpose ...

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 ...