Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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While I knew a lot of people growing up who weren’t allowed to participate in the holiday because it was considered demonic, black Americans have long celebrated and enjoyed Halloween, along with believing in the supernatural. [Ghost stories, haunted, Detroit, devil's night, mischief night, Haint blue, plantation haints, hoodoo, gullah geechee, gypsy joe louis, trick or treating, ebony magazine, chubby checker, Emmett Till, Mississippi, William Roy Prather]

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