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This is a magnificently beautiful song in honor of the Orixá, Nanã Buruku. In Candomblé, Nanã is an elder, feminine, earth-based energy. She is the energy of the primal connection between earth and water, the holy mud out of which life forms and to wh...

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There are rumblings in the land.   Some good news out of Denver, Colorado. Here is the link to two very moving stories of Colorado-based white American women who decided to pay reparations to African Americans for some of the generational misery sl...

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  In the photo above, from November 2015, Makota Valdina Pinto — an esteemed elder in the Angola Candomblé tradition — offers popcorn in a rite of cleansing and blessing to participants in an annual march for religious tolerance and res...

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