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Miami-based mom Tamara B. Rodriguez was horrified when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Among the questions that swirled in her mind were: What was life going to be like for her in the next three months? Then the ultimate…
Got kids? Nephews? Godkids? Little nephews…well, you get my drift. You can use these 50 Children’s books to teach them about Haiti and Haitian culture! 1. My First English-Haitian Creole Illustrated Dictionaryby Anne-Valerie Dorsainvil(Educavision)A pictorial dictionary to help elementary-aged children…
Marlene Daut is the author of Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865. Let’s all welcome her to my cultural salon. Yay! She’s an academic heavyweight, folks. She holds a…
50 Haiti Memoirs Every American Should Read Written by kreyolicious with Do you like reading life stories (also known as biographies and memoirs)? Here are 50 Haiti memoirs you should be…
Sexual abuse is ugly. It’s no wonder no one wants to talk about the matter, and when it is talked about, codes are used, voices come down to a whisper. Growing up in a Haitian-American household, Vie Cine (Ciné) suffered…
Born in Boston and raised by a single woman in a Haitian-American household, Vie Ciné suffered sexual abuse while still a little girl. After years of hurting inside, she decided to make her trauma public by writing Memoirs of A…
7-Year Old Haitian-American Author Isabella Menard Writes Her First Book Written by kreyolicious with Welcome to a special edition of Haitian American Book club, brought to you by your favorite chick…
Akashaic Books, an independent publisher based in New York has released Hadriana In My Dreams, a book originally published last century by Haiti-born poet and writer Rene Depestre in English. The English translation was done by Kaiama L. Glover, the…
“We need diverse books,” is the cry of the book community. Well, Haitian-American Ibi Zoboi is meeting that need with her Young Adult novel American Street, released this spring. In the tome, Zoboi writes about Fabiola Toussaint, a teen who…
[ad_1] Writer and journalist Francie Latour took her Haitian-American heritage, the legacy of one of Haiti’s most well-known women of the arts to create Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings, a stunning children’s book about the US-born daughter of Haitians who discovers…