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The famous “Portrait of a Creole Woman in a Madras Tignon,” often erroneously claimed to portray the Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, has sold at auction for $984,000 to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Martha Kirby Capo shared her thoughts and experiences from her recent visit to New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
Replacing a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, Simone Leigh’s new sculpture, Sentinel (Mami Wata), whose aspects are found in many African Diasporic Religions.
C. Foxnose Huling writes about watching Netflix’s “Ragnarok,” which retells Norse mythlogy in a modern setting with themes of industrialization and climate change, while enduring Hurricane Ida.
As the season of Samhain opens before us, Manny Tejeda-Moreno takes readers on a virtual tour of some of his favorite cemeteries.