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The athletic coach Larry Bird once said, “A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” The artist known as Mecca aka Grimo…
Who really is Haitian Jonas? Don’t ask. You may not get a straight answer from the Brooklyn-born comedian born Jonas Jeannot. Or you might get a uber-comical reply or an impromptu-on-the-spot skit. Like any serious comedian of the 2010s, the…
How did the comedian known as Papa Jean get his stage name? You don’t have to guess too hard. “My stage name comes from two places,” the comedian explains. “My name is the most popular French and Haitian name ever—Jean.”…
Christine Souffrant has a quote she lives by: “Life is a promise…fulfill it.” She’s definitely been doing her share of self-fulfillment. As the CEO of Vendedy, an app that digitizes street vending, Christine has not only made her dream of…
Some people know by high school or college that they want to devote their lives to the art of acting. Not Port-au-Prince-born Alex Sanon! The fledging actor was in the graphic designing business, and as the client queue started to…
When asked how he wants to be remembered, Haitian music and broadcasting legend Herbert “Herby” Widmaier doesn’t have to ponder the question for too long. “I want to be remembered as a good guy—that’s all,” says Herby Widmaier during a…
With her head shaved, Haiti-singer Rutshelle Guillaume defies beauty standards and mane-growing expectations. Listen, she’s not conventional by the thesaurus definition of the word. Last year when she released her debut album, she wore a robe with symmetrical designs for…
Joyce Fuerza has lived in four different countries, so it’s barely a surprise that she’s fluent in five different languages and is learning a sixth. What’s surprising is that in spite of her overwhelming success, she still comes across as…
If you have a deep love for the theatre—and especially Black Theatre—you most likely have heard of the award-winning, Detroit-born playwright Dominique Morisseau. If you haven’t, you will. The Edward M. Kennedy Prize winner (she won a year ago for…
Award-winning playwright and actress Dominique Morisseau may seem like one of those professionals whose success was handed to them on a silver-rimmed gold platter. The truth is that the University of Michigan BFA graduate has been at it for quite…