Since the Western world learned of Vodou, it has been used to perpetuate racist tropes. This is the sordid history Black ...

On the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, enslaved men and women built something that has never fit comfortably into the standard account of American religious history: a private ...

In rural Georgia, Quincy Howard apprentices in the family business preparing the body, mind, and spirit for homegoing rituals ...

In the South, death is rarely a private matter. It is met with food arriving at the family's door, cars pulling to the side of the road as a procession passes, and churches filled for a homegoing. I ...

Christopher C. Fisher is a Durham-rooted documentary photographer and filmmaker and an M.F.A. candidate in Documentary Expression at the University of Mississippi. He also directe ...

Afolabi Praise is a freelance writer interested in culture, history, science, technology, and social issues. His work explores overlooked stories, human experiences, and the ideas that shape how we ...

This essay is Part Four in a series analyzing the zombie racial Other in media. It contains spoilers for World War Z (2013). "The establishment of the state of Israel in mid-May 1948 was greeted with ...

I'm always encountering people who think "political horror" or "social commentary horror" began with Jordan Peele's Get Out in 2017 or Ari Aster's Hereditary in 2018, but horror films have drawn on ...

Now John was a man and knew he was a man, but played the fool, like most did. He wont no ordinary slave though. No, John was one of the few that still remembered Africa, our home. On one of them back ...