On a recent Monday night at Coyo Taco in Wynwood, DJ Oscar G opens his weekly residency set with a gradual ascent of deep-house beats that drown out conversations at the bar. Standing next to him is ...

Disciples fill Faizah Perry's sunny suburban Houston home for a day of worship as chanting emanates from a sheet-curtained side room in which she divines the future and enacts other secret rituals.

Growing up in Havana, Neri Torres remembers police officers coming to her house often when her brother played the drums while praying to orishas, the gods of his Santeria religion. Today, as the ...