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Patrick Jean-Baptiste

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The Road is Made by Walking It: Why No One Can...

People think wisdom can be bottled, labeled, and sold. They believe that a professor can give them knowledge, not just about a subject, but...

The Code Noir

The Code Noir was more than law—it was a script for suffering, a doctrine of domination dressed in the language of governance. Issued in...

Rituals and Resonance: Exploring the Tapestry of Haitian Vodou

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1M7lJQ7hYXveu2pbCLI21r?si=df431b4d03a54c79 Under the watchful gaze of our ancestors and to the beat of sacred drums, I journeyed here into the mystical realm of Haitian Vodou...

The Land Remembers: Tourism, Legacy, and the Haitian Future

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WXvMjvu4nDiDFxme96A2r?si=dYoJeYRrQFmJXGBp8JuT7g Haiti, land of contradictions they say, where the past is not just remembered but lived. The soil still carries the footprints of revolution, the...

An Hour a Day: A Story of Books, Time, and Legacy

I have watched her ascend, this girl of mine, from the moment she could grasp the weight of a book in her tiny hands....

Banks Protect Their Wealth—Why Can’t Haiti?

Push, Don’t Pull: What Fidelity Taught Me About Banking, Corruption, and Haitian Sovereignty Money moves, but not freely. It is watched, monitored, tagged, and caged...

Blood as Currency: Gender, Violence, and Power in When the Mapou...

When the Mapou Sings: Haiti’s History in Verse and Silence The minute I opened When the Mapou Sings, I was grateful that I did not...

Stones by Stones. Words to Deeds

The Citadelle Henry and the palace of Sans-Souci still stand, two centuries later. Stone upon stone, carved from sweat and will, they endure. What...

Breaking the Cycle: Why Haiti’s “Fixes” Fix Nothing

If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If...
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The Quiet Architecture of Haitian Excellence and the Death of the...

A friend from the neighborhood stopped by last night with his wife and their 18-year-old daughter, bright-eyed, standing at the edge of her future,...