This is a guest-publication, written by Dr André Wislet, head of resident doctors at the State University Hospital of Haiti. This post is a translation of the original, written in French, published in a medical newsletter, The Lancet (page 6) in August of 2021. It is the first essay in…

This essay is an edited and shortened version of a talk I gave at the Africana Studies Department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, on October 4th, 2021, at the launching event of a solo exhibit featuring photography from my free-lance project, Lives in (R)evolution. The photo…

This piece was published in the Caribbean Quarterly, along with my photography, in Fall, 2019. A small cloud of dust is kicked up by every step we take. The road is steep and rocky, closed in by tropical vegetation at places, open to a breathtaking view of surrounding mountains at…

Essay and Photography A longer version of this essay was published in the Journal of Free Black Thought, on September 29th, 2021, with the title: From Hungary to Haiti: Unique Histories, Universal Stories.

Great Strides is not the stereotypical horse-riding school. Hidden among suburban houses on Saddle Rock Ranch in Middle Island, NY, it is a place with a difference: it offers therapeutic riding lessons for the differently abled, for veterans, and for independent riders of typical abilities who are interested in an…

Fifteen minutes until visiting hours. Time dragged. Damien was sitting on the floor, his back leaning against the wall, trying to keep it together, waiting. On the other side of the wall, out on the street, people were burning trash. The smoky smell seeped inside the detention center. Damien sat…