When Dr. Chike Akua steps into a room — or cracks open a page — he brings with him thousands of years of ancestral wisdom. In ...

In the winter of 1773, 29-year-old Dinah Nevil, a woman with Indigenous, African, and European ancestry, arrived in Philadelphia with her young children and made a remarkable claim — one that set her ...

the possibility of Christianizing ancestor worship, the issue of salvation for African ancestors who historically did not encounter the Christian faith, and the Ancestors and communion of saints.

Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is often referred to as the Mother Church of Texas, a place where the enslaved would gather to worship.

Former President Joe Biden attends the Juneteenth celebration at the historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston ...

American-Ghanaian rapper Vic Mensa has spoken out about how traditional African spiritual systems like Voodoo and Yoruba have ...

Xam Xam is the first video released on April 10 by Senegalese Cheikh Ibra Fam, the former Orchestra Baobab singer and instrumentalist, from his upcoming sophomore album, Adouna ("Life"), set for ...

Africa is a continent of stories ... forest spirits who must be respected through ritual, song, and silence. Ancestral worship is key—elders are seen as bridges between the living and the ...

William Moses Summerville has been named executive director of Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. The announcement of ...

For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of history's darkest chapters with joy — such as parades or ...