For years, witchcraft has had a traditional look in popular entertainment — pointy hats, broomsticks, spells and potions — and usually white. Aside from a few supporting character examples, Black witchcraft has remained a blind spot in this witchy narrative. There’s no version of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” for Black witches. So we asked the real members of this varied spiritual practice today how Hollywood can do better for Black witchcraft.
N’ganga Makhosi has been practicing hoodoo in Los Angeles her entire life, a tradition she learned from her grandmother, but says she’s never felt her practice was accurately represented in the media.
“It’s always either someone using curses, sacrificial animals, or calling on evil spirits,” she says.
Hoodoo, also known as conjuring or rootwork, is a cultural tradition practiced largely in the southern United States with ties to Yoruba religious spirits and deities, similar to voodoo and Santeria.
N’ganga Makhosi has been practicing hoodoo in Los Angeles her entire life, a tradition she learned from her grandmother, but says she’s never felt her practice was accurately represented in the media.
“It’s always either someone using curses, sacrificial animals, or calling on evil spirits,” she says.
Hoodoo, also known as conjuring or rootwork, is a cultural tradition practiced largely in the southern United States with ties to Yoruba religious spirits and deities, similar to voodoo and Santeria.
- 10/30/2020
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
The Vampire Diaries Universe continues to be alive thanks to The CW keeping its second spinoff, Legacies, around.
And while it was nice to check back into Mystic Falls several years after Elena, Stefan, Bonnie, Damon, and Caroline's neverending battles with the forces of evil ended, it's starting to get a bit long in the tooth.
Legacies Season 1 offered up a new and exciting direction for the franchise.
A monster of the week format and a magic school setting offered something new for fans who had followed characters for eight seasons of The Vampire Diaries and five seasons of The Originals.
Coupled with a new generation of characters, it initially proved to be a worthy successor to the previous two shows in the franchise.
Both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals had stellar second seasons, filled with excellent storytelling, acting, and game-changing twists that sent both series in directions we didn't think possible.
And while it was nice to check back into Mystic Falls several years after Elena, Stefan, Bonnie, Damon, and Caroline's neverending battles with the forces of evil ended, it's starting to get a bit long in the tooth.
Legacies Season 1 offered up a new and exciting direction for the franchise.
A monster of the week format and a magic school setting offered something new for fans who had followed characters for eight seasons of The Vampire Diaries and five seasons of The Originals.
Coupled with a new generation of characters, it initially proved to be a worthy successor to the previous two shows in the franchise.
Both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals had stellar second seasons, filled with excellent storytelling, acting, and game-changing twists that sent both series in directions we didn't think possible.
- 10/13/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Consider this a premonition: The Vampire Diaries‘ seventh season, premiering Oct. 8 at 8/7c on The CW, is going to be the Year of Bonnie Bennett.
VideosVampire Diaries Season 7 Trailer: Steroline Gets Steamy as ‘Supernatural Terrorists’ Invade Mystic Falls
Not only is the show’s Hwic — that’s Head Witch in Charge — back from the ’90s and ready to go “full-throttle” on her enemies, but the unlucky-in-love character is also adding another notch to her bedpost.
“It really surprised me who they ended up putting Bonnie with, but I was super stoked,” Kat Graham tells TVLine of the big reveal, which...
VideosVampire Diaries Season 7 Trailer: Steroline Gets Steamy as ‘Supernatural Terrorists’ Invade Mystic Falls
Not only is the show’s Hwic — that’s Head Witch in Charge — back from the ’90s and ready to go “full-throttle” on her enemies, but the unlucky-in-love character is also adding another notch to her bedpost.
“It really surprised me who they ended up putting Bonnie with, but I was super stoked,” Kat Graham tells TVLine of the big reveal, which...
- 9/21/2015
- TVLine.com
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