From PBS: Every year on January 1st, Haitian Independence Day, Haitians celebrate their ancestors’ hard won freedom from slavery and French colonial rule by making soup joumou. In this episode of the PBS program Ritual, host Tank Ball explores what it means to use food to preserve the memory of home, and how the ritual highlights the complexities of living in a country whose government has so frequently antagonized Haiti in its historical quest for freedom.
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At Beyond Borders, we are inspired by the Haitian proverb "the rock in the water doesn't understand the misery of the rock in the sun." Today, we are asking you to stand with those currently in the "sun"—our Haitian friends and neighbors living right here in the U.S....
