Interview with local Denver activist-minister Anne Dunlap – who talks about her family and Vincent Harding as inspirations for her racial justice work. Read More
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A great article about the need to address white supremacy and cultural appropriation in the interpretation of Buddhist history and teachings in the USA.
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A thoughtful meditation on the “hauntings” of Blackness in the modern world and the non-linear way we connect to our culture, our music and our history across the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Read the essay by James Padilioni, Jr. here.
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We are proud to announce the upcoming visit to the USA of Iyalorixá Valnizia de Ayrá (Mãe Val) — senior Candomblé priestess and community activist from Brazil. Candomblé is a powerful, poetic and ancestral tradition developed by enslaved ...
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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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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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On February 12, Dr. Charles H. Long, a distinguished historian of religions passed in North Carolina. Dr. Long was an extraordinary scholar whose unparalleled writings, lectures and conversations helped form several generations of academics in the areas...
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