An intellectual desk setup featuring an open book titled *Teaching Haiti* by Dr. Cécile Accilien, with handwritten notes in the margins. Surrounding the book are aged parchment papers, a quill pen, and an oil lamp casting a warm glow. A vintage-style microphone sits nearby, symbolizing a podcast discussion. In the background, faint overlays of Haitian art and historical imagery blend into the scene, representing Haiti's rich cultural and intellectual heritage. The composition evokes a scholarly and reflective mood, emphasizing the depth of Haitian history and narratives.

Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6EAYDkcVdaW2Sy8zyund0i Podcast Summary: Rewriting Haiti’s Narrative with Dr. Cécile Accilien In this episode, I sat down with Dr. Cécile Accilien to discuss her book, Teaching Haiti:...
**Alt text:** Cover of the book *The Colonial System Unveiled* by Baron de Vastey, translated and edited by Chris Bongie. The cover features a striking black-and-white photo of a person draped in a white shroud-like garment, holding a painted mask resembling a skull. The background shows a group of similarly dressed figures and a wall with the word "Senate" faintly visible. The title appears in bold yellow-green text at the top.

The Colonial System Unveiled

Summary Of the many topics discussed in this interview, none stuck with me more than the Baron de Vastey toast described below. The year is 1816....
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Simbi and the Coders: When Magic Becomes Automation

There was a time when coding was magic. The engineers, the ones who could summon logic from the ether, who could bend systems to...

Can We Ever Just Be? Black Identity Beyond the Shadow of...

Can we, as people of African descent, ever exist without the West as our measuring stick, our shadow, our perpetual point of departure? Can...

Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5QO6u0q3BUaY7e2psAbyj6?si=U37O4QPOQNmipwZgpoNJZA This conversation with Dr. Sophie Maríñez is less an interview than a reckoning for me, an excavation of Haitian and Dominican ghosts, of histories...
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Dominoes, Dictators, and Human History

Last night, the second installment of our monthly dominoes game was in full effect—just men, bonding, exhaling. The tiles slapped the table like punctuation...

Rejecting the Tin-Cup Cycle of ‘Helping’ Haiti

A dear friend—well-meaning yet so profoundly detached from Haiti’s enduring wounds—asked me recently if I might leverage my connections for her church’s missionary project....

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

Summary Under the watchful gaze of our ancestors and to the beat of sacred drums, I journeyed here into the mystical realm of Haitian Vodou...