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Black Gen Z is not losing faith. They’re interrogating it — and in many cases, going looking for something more.

Data from Pew Research shows a 12 percent decline in Black Americans identifying as Christian over the past two decades and a 10 percent rise in those who are religiously unaffiliated.

Alongside that shift, scholars are documenting a resurgence of interest in ancestral and traditional African religions among young Black Americans, from Vodun to Ifá to the spiritual traditions encoded in Voodoo.

In a piece for Forward Times, Howard University student Aniyah Genama (@niyah.leigh ) explores this generational reckoning through the voices of a Catholic chaplain at Howard, a professor of African American religious history, a New Orleans Voodoo priestess and students themselves — many of whom are asking, for the first time, whether the faith they grew up in was freely chosen or handed to them by history and circumstance.

“What you’re wanting is the Black experience and the warmth of your ancestors, and that’s in your bloodline.” — Voodoo Queen Kalindah Laveaux

Read the full piece by clicking the link in our bio 🔗

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#BlackNews #BlackFaith #GenZ #BlackSpirituality #Religion taken in Howard University by @niyah.leigh

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A dream fulfilled. A legacy created.

Howard University I am eternally grateful for you.

Aniyah Genama
B.A. in Strategic, Legal and Management Communications
Magna Cum Laude by @niyah.leigh

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