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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...
A vintage intellectual desk scene with an oil-painted texture. The desk holds classic writing tools such as a quill, inkwell, and aged parchment, alon

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,...

You Can’t Win Tomorrow’s Game with Yesterday’s Points

During one of our monthly Afro-Caribbean men’s domino gatherings—the kind where the slap of the tiles carries the weight of history and pride—a debate...

The First and Last King of Haiti

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6SQHgygB1ly0yp12d8DZ4v?si=5LASooJbQZGhyXuprh4rEg Whenever I hear 1804 Haitian fanatics—those who shout with fevered breath about the glories of the Haitian Revolution, about the unshakable will of Christophe,...

Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0YfI1CB0kAzG9jJCCC4RHZ?si=PXwzGnj-QsWfuJDImupJAQ This second reading is nothing less than a conscientious effort to weave together the manifold strands of Charlemagne Péralte’s remarkable and harrowing life—a fractured...

Haitian Sovereignty & Exported Identity

Under the presidency of Élie Lescot, on May 5, 1941, Haiti embarked on a bold endeavor, not of conquest, but of cultural export, proclaiming...