Haitian Vodou is a commonly stigmatized religion that is oftentimes mischaracterized as having demonic traditions. Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha’s work goes far beyond combatting these incorrect preconceived ...

There’s something vaguely holy about “Lwa,” Fabiola Jean-Louis’s softly menacing effigy of a Haitian deity posed in a flood of daylight at the Gardner Museum. The handful of steps leading ...

Contemporary movements, like Womanist theology developed by theologians Delores Williams, Emilie Townes, and Katie Geneva ...

textile artist Myrlande Constant has depicted scenes from Haitian history, religion, and daily life through the large-scale, labor-intensive beaded embroidery of traditional Vodou flags.

Jean-Louis was born in Haiti in 1978 and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, as a young child. She was entrenched in vodou roots and tradition but also went to Catholic school in the United States. In ...

The bodies of the victims – primarily elderly practitioners of Haitian Vodou – were mutilated, burned or discarded in the sea. The violence is not confined to the capital. In October ...

A member of the international force battling gangs in Haiti has been killed, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio launches a tour of the Caribbean with Haiti’s security crisis high on the agenda.