In my first ever blog post, I wrote, "It's been six months and 25 days since I have had a job, by that I mean something that pays regularly and comes with certain perks like health insurance." Those six months and 25 days quickly spiraled into two years....

I interviewed fellow Huffington Post blogger, Mina Samuels about what it means to Run Like a Girl. We live in a day and age where girls and women feel they have to be someone else to be empowered. Running is more than just a sport, it's...

September is around the corner and before you know it, it will be time to send kids back to school. With the prevalence of childhood obesity and high incidences of what used to be adult diseases -- such as Type 2 Diabetes -- among kids in the U.S., parents are...

There is a war going on. It's a war against women.

Beauty is under attack, not only the outward physical beauty but the deep femininity that exists within women. Today, after reading CNN's article about the 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl lashed to death, my reaction was one of...

At another tent city there is a nineteen year-old boy, one of many, with a blood pressure reading of 160/100. A young girl, 14 years old, cannot eat. Her diagnosis: mental anguish. There is a mother whose thoughts run wild and sometimes escapes her as she searches for the son...

I am back from a recent trip to Haiti. Haiti is a land of healing and hurt, openness and oppression, cooperation and competition, restoration and resistance. It is a study in contrasts.

Stepping into the American Airlines arrival section of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport was a foreshadowing of...

It is time. Before I went to Haiti, I slumbered. My sleep was sweet to me. I did not know there was a need for awakening. It's time. Time to get up. Time to rise. Time to shine. Time to do something. Not anything -- something. The urgency, for people,...

I am disappointed that a blog post entitled "I Can't Find a Good Employee from Generation Y, " was printed on BNET's website. The article was an exercise in flagellation. The indiscriminate charges against members of Generation Y demonstrate that the author sought simply to vent...

My dear young friend,

I am compelled to write to you now because I do not think you fully comprehend the vastness of being Haitian. Do you grasp our history? The present and the future are based on gleaning knowledge of our past - no matter the elements, which...

In The Butterfly's Way, a collection of works edited by Edwidge Danticat, Joanne Hyppolite writes:

When you are in Haiti they call you Dyaspora. This word, which connotes both connection and disconnection, accurately describes your condition as a Haitian American... Haiti is not where you live.

It is almost...

Upon hearing that an 8.8 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter roughly 70 miles from Chile's second largest city of Concepcion, I began to automatically draw comparisons. We could talk about how the "Chilean quake would likely claim far fewer lives than the one that struck Haiti in early...

With the continuing aftershocks, Haiti is suffering from an inordinate amount of large-scale setbacks. My thoughts float to family and friends still there - hungry, without shelter or access to medical care. A particular group stands out in my mind - the amputees. Since January countless news stories have referred...

One month later, rain pours into the streets of Port-au-Prince. Some call it "fresh misery." I think, how many more buildings will collapse, how many more people will die? But I also think: how many still have hope? How many will view this rain as a washing...

Today, I woke up thinking of Haiti. I thought of the 33 children the ten American Baptists were trying to take out of the country. In trying to live out a Rudyard Kipling poem, these so-called "naïve" and "well-meaning" missionaries, have caused attention to shift away from what truly matters,...

Deborah Willis tells stories through pictures. I wanted to tell her story with her words. Guggenheim Fellow. MacArthur "Genius" Awardee. Photographer. Teacher. Author. Aunt. Mother. The list goes on. We sat down in New York City's Leica Gallery discussing her, her work and the life of art.

Do...

I am suffering an inordinate amount of anxiety over the adoption of these children. As grateful as I am for the outpouring of support, I have grown wary that many in their noble attempt to help the children will fail to protect them and allow the process of verification to...

While the rest of the world has been pondering the economic and social fate of the recently earthquake devastated island-nation of Haiti, Haitian-Americans alone have asked, "What will happen to our culture?"

As a first generation Haitian-American, I, like many others, have strove to find the...

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King Jr.

What a better day to print a response to David Brooks', New York Times, weekend op-ed piece which demonstrated as I am sure Dr. King would agree, "sincere...

My friends and I worried about the negativity that would emerge when the Department of Homeland Security granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitian nationals, allowing them to remain in the U.S for 18 months while conditions at home improve.

Rush Limbaugh's hostile comments regarding aid for Haiti, "Besides, we've...

I wrestled with the idea of posting this prayer. I was sure it would fall out of the bounds of journalism. But as a Christian journalist I have a duty to use this platform to give expression to the voices crying out for help.

Father in Heaven,

We...