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, ...

Tony Kail is author of the book A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals. On Saturday, he’ll lead a walking tour of hoodoo points of interest down Beale Street. But, he ...

Dr. Buzzard, Domingo the Black Constable, Gullah Jack the Conjurer—these are the names that hover over the history of Hoodoo, a spiritual practice that evolved across the African diaspora in the New ...

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 ...