The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the heart to the lower part of the body. In early fetal development, it forms from two smaller blood vessels, called the ...

pool photo by Andersen/Gaillarde Frankétienne was born Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d’Argent on April 12, 1936, in Ravine-Sèche, an impoverished rural village in northwest Haiti.

He was 88. Born Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d’Argent (more on his name later), he was raised in the Bel-Air slum in Haiti’s capital and became what many consider Haiti’s most ...

The pig is a constant part and a very important part of voodoo, because this is the animal that we present as Ezili Dantor. >> This woman, this divine, the first black woman recognized in the ...