Often misrepresented in pop culture, Haitian Vodou is a complex and deeply spiritual African-derived religion that blends ancestral traditions with Catholic influences. This video explores its origins ...

Haitians across South Florida will honor a native tradition and spirituality as they celebrate the island nation’s annual Fèt ...

A North Carolina man is asking for answers after his mom died while on a Vodou retreat in Haiti. Dana Jackson, 51, wanted to become a Manbo priestess. A Manbo priestess “is a female ritual specialist ...

When Mirlesna Azor-Sterlin heard former president Donald Trump repeat the lie that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating pets during his debate with Kamala Harris, she was reminded of her ...

Even with his death, Assotto Saint wanted to provoke. While dying of AIDS in the early ’90s, Saint made detailed plans for his funeral: lining up speakers, dictating which of his poems he wanted read ...

A North Carolina woman died under mysterious circumstances on a Vodou retreat in Haiti — and her family is demanding answers from the group’s leaders. Dana Jackson, 51, traveled to Haiti on July 1 ...

Elder Toni Runnels, an ordained Ifa priestess and holistic therapist for 24 years, leads a traditional ceremony with fellow follwers of Ifa. Roy Inman Special to The Star Your Guide to KC: Star ...

AFAMAIN copy 39088019733823 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Part 1 What Is Haitian Vodou? -- 1 Zo Li Mache: How Haiti -- and Haitian Vodou -- Came to Be 17 -- 2 Aprè Bondye: ...

Performing the nation : musical constructions of Haitian cultural identity -- The politics of musical ethnography : Jean Price-Mars and the ethnological movement -- Recombinant mythology and the ...