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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 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown ...

In Haiti, locals took to the streets recently to protest a new governmental decree that threatens the practice of the Vodou religion. Gina Athena Ulysse, a contributor at the Huffington Post, writes ...

Thousands of Haitians—Protestant worshippers and Vodou practitioners—marched peacefully through Port-au-Prince on Jan. 3 to ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel -- 1: Vodun and social transformation in the African diasporic experience: the concept of personhood in Haitian Vodun ...

Vodou Priestess Katy calls on the spirits at a traditional Haitian Vodou ceremony of the Dead. Attend her first ceremony since being displaced after the 2010 earthquake. Broadly travels to the heart ...

The second annual New Orleans National Vodou Day is a cross-continental summit of spiritual practitioners bolstered by a new partnership with Xavier University. Inspired by a similar event in Benin, ...

Haitian-American filmmaker Michele Stephenson traveled to Haiti on behalf of the National Black Programming Consortium to capture the struggles of Haitians a year after the devastating Jan. 12, 2010, ...

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 ...