Bodies washed ashore on white sand beaches. Immigrants’ corpses littering the shores of paradise. These are images Bahamian Filmmaker Kareem Mortimer recalls of his youth. “I had always known about this” Mortimer said in a recent interview for NBPC’s AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. Mortimer said he remembers hearing, night after night, the reports as … A Modern Day Middle Passage
“PORT-AU-PRINCE — On the western outskirts of the Haitian capital, a large white house shows signs of coming back to life. Groundskeepers have torn down the campaign posters that a presidential candidate had papered all over the forest-green front gate, trimmed the long lawn, swept the winding, fir tree-lined driveway, and even planted flowers. A … Phantom Limbs
According to both the World Bank and the UN’s International Telecommunications Union one million Haitian residents had internet access before the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake. That’s a startling statistic for the country commonly shorthanded as “The Poorest Nation in the Western Hemisphere,” but it’s also the kind of nice, rounded figure that suggests complicated, back-of-the-envelope maths … Island in the Net
Among the first things diaspora Haitians like to tell you about themselves by way of personal preamble is that they are inheritors to a great Revolution. (Next comes why they or their parents left Haiti at all, but that story usually comes after introductions.) “First black republic, world’s only successful slave revolt” – the schooling … Year Zero + 1; Digital Diaspora
A couple of years ago I was just finishing up my last semester in grad school at Harvard University I was interviewing at all the big Wall Street firms and when it came down to the final interviews, one of them flew me to New York and put me up at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. … HAITI REPPIN’ AT THE WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL