Haitian Appreciation Thread
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Not sure how I feel about that NYT series about Haitian History.,I detected a level of smug condescension while I was reading it on Friday*. And the Aristide story seemed to be revision. But one thing that I did note, was that for once, there was a Kreyol version of the series. Follow up article today details the team of Haitians + diaspora who worked with them on the translating.
*Even this article has it, it's a subtle NY media thing.
The Ransom: Haiti's Reparations to France
A Story About Haitian History, in Haitian Creole.
The two official languages of Haiti are Haitian Creole and French.Credit...Federico Rios for The New York Times
By Catherine Porter
- May 23, 2022, 11:06 a.m. ET
The New York Times’s “Ransom” project spoke directly to many Haitians, and not just because it offered an explanation for why daily life in their country is so often grueling.
The articles also appeared in Haitian Creole, along with English and French.
It was the first time a full article — much less a multipart series — in Haitian Creole had appeared on The Times’s website, and many Haitians responded to that alone over the weekend.
“The biggest service you could do for Haiti today is read this investigation,” one well-known journalist from Haiti, Nancy Roc, wrote on Twitter in Haitian Creole and French from her home in Montreal. “For the first time in its history, the newspaper published certain texts in Creole.”
The Times worked with a team of Haitian Creole translators based in North Miami. It was the most ambitious project the team had ever worked on, said their founder and president, Fedo Boyer.
For Haitians, the decision to offer Haitians the choice of reading in Haitian Creole sent an “extraordinarily powerful signal,” said Michel DeGraff, a professor of linguistics who is a co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Haiti initiative and a founding member of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Haitian Creole Academy). He is now in Haiti, working with educators.
Though Haitian Creole is Haiti’s national language — one of two official languages, along with French — many in the country still believe Haitian Creole is a lesser form of communication, Professor DeGraff said.
“When it comes to scientific conferences and prestigious forums, Haitians in Haiti tend to favor French (or even English) over Haitian Creole,” he said. “There is this widespread but mistaken notion that the language is not ready to do science or philosophy or any intellectual activity that includes complex concepts.”
This was not entirely an accident. Haitian Creole was suppressed, Professor DeGraff said, by “the forces that want to keep power and prestige for colonial powers and the upper classes.”
But, he said, Haitian Creole is vitally important because it is “spoken by all Haitians, while French is spoken by a tiny majority,” making the exclusion of Haitian Creole in spheres of official life a way of impoverishing a large percentage of the population.
“When The New York Times publishes in Haitian Creole, you are honoring all Haitians,” he said.
All four written articles and a timeline graphic in the series were translated by a team of three at the Miami translation company, CreoleTrans. Mr. Boyer, the company founder and president, said the project was the trickiest he had worked on in his 20 years as a professional translator because of the number of drafts before publication.
While working on the project, he said, he remembered his school days in Les Cayes, Haiti, when speaking Haitian Creole in class led to students’ being given a stick or stone to carry as a symbol of shame.
“This is why we do what we do” he said, “so others won’t have tell people: ‘They wrote a story about Haiti.’ They can read it themselves. And if they can’t read, someone can read it to them — in their own language.”
*Even this article has it, it's a subtle NY media thing.
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Might be the best Haitian rap song I have heard.
I like this one too
I like this one too
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trailer, series debuts on Aug 11*Have never seen a single episode of the tv series, Insecure.
Nov 30, 2021
‘Insecure’ Alums Jean Elie and Mike Gauyo Score ‘Send Help’ Series at AMC’s Allblk
Courtesy of Allblk
Allblk, AMC Networks’ streamer for Black content, has greenlit “Send Help,” a coming-of-age dark comedy created by “Insecure” recurring star Jean Elie and writer and story editor Mike Gauyo.
“Send Help” will follow Fritz (Elie), a young first generation Haitian American struggling to overcome the challenges of “making it” in Hollywood, while coming to terms with a recent family tragedy. He relocates to L.A. from Brockton, Mass., all while trying to be the new man of the family and exploring the Southern California dating scene. Throughout the series, Fritz fights to conquer his feelings of imposter syndrome, the Hollywood community and his family issues. Rather than address his shortcomings head on, he chooses to deny and avoid the issues that everyone else can see.
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Judge Lionel Jean-Baptiste honored by colleagues, friends and family
July 4, 2022
Several hundred friends and relatives of Judge Lionel Jean-Baptiste praised and cheered the former Evanston alderman Sunday afternoon as a portion of McDaniel Avenue was given the honorary name of Hon. Lionel Jean-Baptiste Way by the City of Evanston.
The street sign, at McDaniel and Crane, is in the 2nd Ward, which Jean-Baptiste represented on Evanston City Council from 2001-2011.
He has been a Cook County circuit court judge since then.
Ald. Peter Braithwaite, who replaced Jean-Baptiste on the council, said his predecessor “deserves thanks for all the wonderful works” he has done for the City of Evanston.
The street naming ceremony had special meaning for Evanston’s Haitian-American community, many of whom were on hand for the celebration at Harbert-Payne Park.
Jean-Baptiste was born in Haiti and emigrated to Evanston in the early 1960s, when he was 14 years old.
He left as the valedictorian of Evanston Township High School, received a degree from Princeton University and then from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Iva Carrothers, a social justice activist, told the crowd at Harbert-Payne Park that Jean-Baptiste is “a son of Evanston and Haiti that’s defied the odds.”
Jean-Baptiste became the first Haitian-American alderman/councilmember in Illinois, and then the first Haitian-American judge in Cook County.
It did not take Jean-Baptiste long to become active in the civil rights and social justice movement.
At ETHS, he helped lead student protests to have a Black teacher hired to teach African-American studies.
Once on City Council, he was the first alderman to introduce a measure calling for reparations two decades ago.
Fomer Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th), who helped Evanston pass the nation’s first reparations ordinance in 2019, called Jean-Baptiste “an an ambassador of reparations.”
Mayor Daniel Biss said “this community owes this man a lot.”
Jean-Baptiste has also been active in Haitian and Haitian-American causes, as founder of the United Front of the Haitian Diaspora. A representative of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago was one of the speakers at the event.
Following the speeches and music, Jean-Baptiste and the crowd marched arm-in-arm down McDaniel Avenue, reminscent of protests during the Civil Rights era, to the light pole where the honorary street sign was posted.
There was a bit of a glitch, which actually added to the joy of the occasion.
When someone tugged on the rope which was supposed to pull off the brown wrapper covering the sign, the rope came down but the wrapper didn’t budge.
A volunteer then climbed up the pole and pushed the wapper off, to the cheers of the crowd.
Jean-Baptiste then told his friends, family, and admirers that “this is not my sign, this is our sign,” and urged the crowd to keep up the fight so “we don’t leave anybody behind.”
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Unless I'm mistaken, his son Ayinde was the little kid who spoke at the Million Man MarchJudge Lionel Jean-Baptiste honored by colleagues, friends and family
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She and I will have beautiful Haitian children together.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd24HifBlg4/
She and I will have beautiful Haitian children together.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd24HifBlg4/
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The evolution of 2nd generation Haitians in Miami.
Journalist Nadege Green.
Haiti landowners struggle to sell properties because potential buyers are fleeing the country
Haitian landowners who plan to leave the country to escape violence and economic stagnation are struggling to sell their homes and lands. The reason: Potential buyers are fleeing, too.The situation has become dire for the Haitian real estate market as landowners, homeowners and real estate agents report almost no interested buyers and alarming downward numbers in sales — the latest crisis triggered by the increasing violence of powerfully armed kidnapping gangs that has ravaged the country in recent years.
“Right now, we have over 200 properties on our website,bestofhaitirealrstate.com, available for sale, and we have accumulated that in a two-year period,” said Mathieu Louis, a Haitian-American real estate agent and founder of Best of Haiti Real Estate. “Out of the 200 in the last two years — this is fast statistics — we only sold two.”
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Well-Being Study to Compare Mental and Overall Health Among Haitian and Haitian American Groups
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The Haitian Well-Being Study, in development at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is a labor of love. “I was born, raised, and trained in Haiti,” said Judite Blanc, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Miller School. “So Haiti is really dear and close to my heart.”
Dr. Blanc has studied the impact of systemic stressors like economic challenges and natural disasters, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. She joined the Miller School in mid-2021, “with the same dream and with the same goal.”
Florida is home to the largest Haitian American population in the United States. Dr. Blanc is looking forward to the local field work.
“You have to go to their community,” she said. “When this community sees someone who looks like them and who goes into their environment speaking to them in Haitian Creole, they are more likely to trust you.”
The Center for Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences (TSCS) at the Miller School is home to the project. Girardin Jean-Louis, Ph.D., director of the TSCS, is a study co-investigator.
The large, prospective study aims first to identify the most important mental health, overall health, and sleep-related factors through focus groups. The researchers will also look at factors including employment, education level, income, immigration status, gender, genomic factors, and type and level of traumatic event exposure.
The results will then inform a survey designed to evaluate the impact of specific stressful factors among larger numbers of Haitians and Haitian Americans. The project could also reveal differences between Haitians, Haitian immigrants to the United States, and Haitian American U.S. citizens who may be more acclimated to the culture in this country. “We know that acculturation has an impact on immigrant minority population health status,” Dr. Blanc said.
The ultimate goal is to enroll 1,000 participants in the study. Depending on funding, the study could follow even more people for up to 10 years to note any changes. The hope is that focus group feedback and survey responses will lead to effective solutions to boosting the well-being of Haitian populations.
Studying Neurologic Risks
The project has already expanded to two other research sites. Dr. Blanc is working with Ernest Barthelemy, M.D., M.P.H., principal investigator for the project at the SUNY Downstate site in Brooklyn, and with Evan Auguste, principal investigator at University of Massachusetts in Boston.Dr. Barthelemy explained that rates of traumatic brain injury and stroke are disproportionately high in the Haitian population. For example, according to CDC global health data, stroke is the second-leading cause of death in Haiti. More robust research is needed to determine why Haitian populations have these higher health risks, he said.
When asked what he hopes comes out of the project, Dr. Barthelemy said: “Health equity.”
Mr. Auguste, incoming assistant professor of psychology at UMass, is developing a scale to measure anti-Haitian discrimination as part of the project. “When we look at existing measures, the scales of discrimination are either based on broad stress models or they’ve been amended from African American experiences of discrimination,” he said.
He is enthusiastic about collaborating with Dr. Blanc. She is “one of the few people really engaging with the idea of historical trauma from a psychological perspective and health perspective on Haitian mental health,” Mr. Auguste said
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She’s past the age for having children breh.