When I see the glee with which Black Americans greet the Nottoway plantation fire, it makes me think of the Black joy that the Haitian Revolution sparked when my ancestors burned the plantation houses and crops for 13 years until Napoleon's troops capitulated. Happy Haitian Flag day! 🇭🇹

The Chance Encounters #podcast episode featuring my story just dropped. The podcast is available via most podcast platforms, including #Spotify and #Apple.

And here it is on CNN: cnn.com/audio/podcas... via @cnntravel.bsky.social #travel #africa #benin

The Far Right Is Rising in the Land of ‘Never Again’ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

This books has loads of shout outs to #Haiti.

Sky Full of Elephants.
Cebo Cambell.

Recommended.

In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, a Black dad and his mixed-race daughter re-examine themselves in a new world order. #blacksky #booksky

"They shoot the white girl first".

Toni Morrison.

#booksky #blacksky

Today is World AIDS day. In Grade 7/8, our gym teacher—a ww who also taught sex-ed—told us, with the authority only a teacher could wield, that #AIDS came frm Africa & was spread by the “Four H’s”: Hemopheliacs, Homosexuals, Heroin addicts, & Haitians.
#amquerying www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...

I'm kinda dissappointed that Ta-Nehisi Coates only spends 40 pages in Africa. I wanted more. It feels like he spent 10 days in Dakar. I feel even luckier to have spent 6 months in 5 countries on my ancestry DNA test. Check out www.JollofJourney.com
#amquerying #books #africa #travel #tahehisicoates

Where does Feminism go in the second Trump era?

Thursday, November 28 · 6:30pm. #ottawa
Reserve your seat: www.eventbrite.ca/e/we-dont-gi...

The truth About Hair Discrimination | Gloria Tabi | TED TALK www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVk...

#blacktwitter