Highlighting Ancestral Veneration and Hoodoo: A Q&A with Nyasha Williams About Saturday Magic

The thing we don’t talk about when we talk about children’s literature, and the thing that maybe I like best about it as a grown adult, is the fact that because we live in such a great era of books for kids right now, we, the adults, are often learning right alongside our children. Hoodoo, the set of religious beliefs and practices that center on ancestor veneration, justice, and a botanical practice of healing and harm known as rootwork, was first introduced to me in the middle grade novel Root...