Voodoo

Former botanist Max Gesner Beauvoir, a leader of the Haitian religion popularly known as Vodou, has died.

D’Angelo spent over a decade teasing a follow up album to his 2000’s CD “Voodoo.” First, a new album was due in 2007. Then 2009. Then 2010, notes Billboard. Then he started touring, for the first time in 10 years, in 2011 and into 2012, airing four solid new songs: “Ain’t That Easy,” “The Charade,” “In Another […]

In African history, the gris-gris was an amulet or symbol of good luck and spiritual protection. The practice of using a gris-gris symbol was brought…

D’Angelo is making his comeback: The reclusive singer will give his first U.S. performance in 10 years at the 2012 Essence Music Festival.D’Angelo will perform during the festival’s opening night. It runs from July 6 to July 8 in New Orleans and also features Trey Songz, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige and many others. The […]

NEW YORK – Marie Lauradin plead guilty to first-degree assault charges for lighting her 6-year-old daughter on fire in a voodoo ritual to get rid of evil spirits. The New York Daily News reports: Lauradin, 30, admitted pouring rum over daughter Frantzcia Santil’s head during the June 2009 incident in the basement of her Queens […]

HAITI-AFP There are reports in Haiti, that people connected to Voodoo are being lynched and burned in Haiti because some Haitians feel that they are responsible for the cholera epidemic. The AFP reports: Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a cholera outbreak that has killed […]