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Religion & Spirituality
In the Appalachian Mountains, folk magic goes by many names: root work, granny magic, kitchen witchery, Braucherei, witchcraft.
Johnson unpacks her spiritual lineage through works that reclaim ancestral memory, hold space for reverence, and create a uniquely Black iconography.
When Mariam Youssef was told she couldn’t sing, it was in essence a mechanism of holding her cultural identity hostage.
In our time, many people are more likely to encounter Yiddish folksongs in an archive rather than sung in the domestic situations that gave rise to them.
This January, Westminster Presbyterian Church’s “Jazz Night in DC” concert series celebrated its twenty-fourth anniversary.
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