Growing up, in a West Indian neighborhood in Brooklyn, I was always taught to avoid a certain kind of woman. They dressed tellingly, in long, stiff skirts, their hair wrapped in beguilingly white ...

Renée Stout, “Black Wall” (2008), acrylic, soil, glass bottles, vintage photographs, and found objects on wood panel (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The exhibition, ...

Company: Lucky Mojo Curio Company, Inc. A young Cat Yronwode passed a store window with a bottle whose label showed a woman in a turban and bikini bowing to a Buddha statue. Intrigued, she went in.

Lanny Anderson, The Louisiana Empress of Vodou, is a priestess and fourth-generation rootworker raised in both Larose and St. Landry Parish. She grew up watching her family practice rootwork and has ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Dr. Buzzard, Domingo the Black Constable, Gullah Jack the ...

J.E. McTeer, the late Beaufort County sheriff known for his practice of hoodoo, will be the subject of a new TV series produced by actor Will Smith's production company. Overbrook Entertainment has ...