“The newborns became toddlers, and the toddlers school children. Soon, they began asking questions. Where is my father? Why don’t I look like the other kids?”
Haiti
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Finding True North
Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.
Posted inStory, Travel
Is This the Most Crowded Island in the World? (And Why That Question Matters)
An amateur geographer travels to an undocumented island off the coast of Haiti after stumbling upon it on Google Earth.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Jesus Is Everywhere in Port-au-Prince, but So Is Vodou
Violent tensions have existed between Haiti’s Vodouisants and missionary Christians for centuries.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Birth of a City, In Fits and Starts
Communities in Haiti are building their own post-earthquake infrastructure without the help of the government.
Posted inEditor's Pick
They Call It Canaan
In the aftermath of disaster, as new communities thousands-strong coalesce in the countryside around Port-au-Prince, Haitians ask: what makes a city?