Connecting to their ancestors through veneration opened access to history for Conejo, who notes many BIPOC individuals and immigrant families’ trauma is a prominent aspect of their history, often ...

Día de Muertos is a cultural holiday originally celebrated by Mesoamerican Indigenous groups, like the Aztecs and Maya in what is now Mexico and Central America, that honours the dead. On November 1 ...

Maud Newton makes a case for nature, not nurture in her memoir. “It’s difficult to heal intergenerational trauma if we don’t understand how it began,” writes Maud Newton in “Ancestor Trouble: A ...

When T’Challa steps into the purple-hued ancestral plane in “Black Panther,” standing before generations of Wakandan rulers, he embodies a connection to ancestors that resonates across cultures.