January 10 is international Vudon Day in Benin (formerly Dahomey). Celebrations will take place everywhere honoring the religion.

I can't help reflect on this most African part of our heritage in the New World especially as it is continually maligned by those whose knowledge is...

Myrlande Constant is undoubtedly Haiti's fiercest flag bearer. A (drapo Vodou) Vodou flag maker who has been refining her craft in the last two decades, Constant ironically exists in near obscurity as a Haitian artist while nothing about her work, accomplishments and personality are meek.

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For as long as I have been teaching (almost 13 years), I have used Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider in one of my courses. Nesha Haniff, the University of Michigan Center for African-American Studies professor who first introduced me to Lorde, had also brought

With Wyclef and Michel Martelly aka Sweet Micky (two well-known musicians) in the mix, Haiti's upcoming election has taken a sardonic turn. The country is currently facing astronomical challenges since the devastating earthquake January 12th and is in desperate need of unprecedented leadership. At home and abroad, everyone is weighing...

The earthquake that decimated various parts of Haiti on January 12th 2010 has a name. Goudougoudou -- that's the affectionate moniker that Haitians have given the disaster. Everyone uses the term. It is as popular with radio show hosts as it is with people on the street and others in...

The earthquake's devastation in Haiti is no longer front-page news. Most cameras shifted their lenses when the morbid and grueling work began--massive discard of the dead and what to do with the displaced living. As bulldozers clear rubble intermingled with bodies and other remains, top officials meet in global cities...

It is still difficult to absorb the images. Though I have now heard from my family members, I experience symptoms of trauma, mainly dissociation -- my mind seeks sporadic distances from my body as this is simply too much for my psyche to bear. Unlike those glued to their screens,...

Avatar is not just another white-man-save-the-day movie. As a black woman and a cultural anthropologist born in Haiti, I had doubts about the depiction of race in the film.

Before seeing Avatar, I worked on resisting the urge to categorize this film as yet another Dances with Wolves, The...