Makota Valdina Pinto is a native of Salvador, Bahia Brazil and an elder in the Kongo-Angola tradition of Afro-Brazilian Candomblé. She is an environmental justice activist, a specialist in ritual and herbal healing, and an well-respected grassroots hist...
Continue ReadingIn this 7-minute interview, Jerry Tello, director of the National Compadres Project, talks about his grandmother’s prayers for him when he was a boy and the way our elders and ancestors bless us through their lineages of struggle and love. It’s...
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