Soup Joumou: A Symbol of Freedom

Soup Joumou: A Symbol of Freedom

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...
Seeing Santa

Seeing Santa

A reflection by David Diggs It’s getting late on Christmas Eve, and I’m six years old.  My Grandma is staying with us, so I’ve had to relinquish the twin bed in the room I share with my older sister. I’m lying under a quilt on a cot in the living room, just feet from...