every year on New Year’s Day, Haitian Independence Day, they will eat the soup. This story of triumph, celebration, and reclamation is one that I, and many other Haitians and their descendants ...

In preparing soup joumou on New Year’s Eve in ... ability to open doorways or opportunities. Haitian and Black American New Year’s Eve traditions across faith backgrounds call us to taste ...

1 marks the new year, but it also marks a significant date in Haitian history — Independence Day. “After 221 years, we are here to just remember that this is not the last. We got to keep fighting for ...