Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unfortunately, the portrayal of Black witches tends to follow the stigmatizing elements of this trope. But, when you think of ...

One of the strangest segments on a NFL pregame show in a while popped up on Fox NFL Sunday this week. There, Terry Bradshaw discussed the New Orleans Saints’ journey from a 2-0 start to a 2-5 record ...

Early Monday morning, on May 19, the house of New Orleans Voodoo queen Marie Laveau went up in flames. The fire had broken out in the kitchen, and firefighters arrived on the scene around 4 a.m. The ...

Wednesday was voodoo queen Marie Laveau’s birthday. She turned 224 years old. Sure, Laveau died at age 79 in 1881 and was entombed in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. But she’s still around in spirit. At ...

Although 28 people managed to cram into a Mini Cooper a few years ago to set a new Guinness World Record, I bet even Guinness would be astonished at how many people New Orleans families manage to fit ...

A painting sold for almost $1 million - more than twice the expected price - at a recent art auction. If you saw it, you might recognize it as a painting widely advertised as a portrait of Marie ...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES, August 21, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- The legacy of Marie Laveau, the renowned Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, continues to capture ...

On Thursday night, over 150 people dressed in white are expected to gather on the Magnolia Bridge over Bayou St. John around a sculpture of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau. There they'll join a head-washing ...

Medicine and voodoo may seem at odds, but Marie Levant, first-year resident at New Orleans's Charity Hospital, discovers she has a gift for more than one kind of healing. Rhodes develops this theme to ...

Poor New Orleans. For all the misfortune that has befallen The Big Easy and the white sand Cajun coast, they can blame it on Mother Nature -- La Nina. They can blame the Republican president or the ...

The Magical Negro trope is an incredibly pervasive character portrayal in many film genres. A Black character uses their efforts to guide a more privileged, white character to their goals. This comes ...