We gather. We assemble. We reclaim.
Rasanblaj is more than a word. It is a call, a method, a way of being. In Haitian, rasanblaj means to bring together, to collect, to assemble—not just things, not just ideas, but people, memory, resistance. It is the act of pulling the scattered pieces back into something whole.
And this? This is the next evolution.
The Nèg Mawon podcast is one of many extended hands, one outstretched limb of Rasanblaj Media. If the podcast was a space where Haitian and Haitianist scholars gathered to speak, then Rasanblaj Media is where we take the conversation further—beyond words, beyond sound, beyond the limits of what we could once contain.
We are building something bigger.
If the podcast is one lakou, one communal yard where minds met and ideas sparked, then Rasanblaj Media is the greater lakou, a confederation of lakous—newspapers, podcasts, magazines, academic journals, writers, artists, thinkers, publishers, and scholars from all over the world, all assembling in the name of memory, resistance, and creation.
Here, we do what we have always done—bear witness, push back, dream forward, and celebrate. We refuse to be erased, refuse to let our histories be flattened, refuse to live only in the margins of someone else’s telling.
This is Rasanblaj Media. The work continues.
This is your lakou. Join us. Bring what you carry.