Hoodoo is an umbrella term to describe the conjuring, culture, and community of Black Americans. It’s often regarded as a Black spiritual tradition that focuses on nature and ancestral reverence.

The sixth annual Hoodoo Mural Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 27, and will feature mural painting, live music, immersive art, and a renewed commitment to community creativity.

Hoodoo will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Then it will close next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, before reopening on a normal schedule Dec. 5.

He concocted a “ magical powder ” and applied it to the clothing of his comrades to protect them. Today, Hoodoo is carried forward through the active practices of African American people throughout ...

Psalm 23, for example, is often recited for protection. In this way, Hoodoo practitioners took the tools of Christianity and made them their own, weaving them into a unique spiritual language.

Doreen St. Félix on the artist Renée Stout, whose work is in “RAGGA NYC,” at the New Museum, and the paradoxical place of hoodoo in black American culture.

For the majority of Black households, the tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Eve to bring in good luck and prosperity is second nature. Find out why.

Hoodoo Meadows Airstrip was originally built in 1936 and abandoned in 1985 due to lack of maintenance and unpredictable afternoon winds at a high elevation (8,200 feet).