#HoodooEdition: A Conversation with the New England Hoodoo Society
<p>Hoodoo, often confused with its related Haitian counterpart (vodou) and drawing from West African vodun, takes on a great many masks. In history, Hoodoo has been misaddressed as sinister witchcraft; in popular culture and media, the practice and spirituality have alternately become haunting specters in Abrahamic contexts, or commodified tokens upon which to capitalize–but neither of these capture actual present-day Hoodoos’ concerns and spirituality.</p>
<p>I had the privilege of meeting Bolaji, a brilliant and insightful cultural worker, through the Black Men’s Collective–a group he co-organizes at the Boston Liberation Center. On an early, cloudy afternoon at the precipice of spring, Bolaji guided us through Hoodoo practices, offering an introduction to the wide variety of West African spirits embodied in African American ways of being and knowing.</p>
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