H-Haiti "The soul of Little Haiti," by Edwidge DANTICAT

Discussion published by Marlene Daut on Thursday, October 3, 2019

The soul of Little Haiti | Essay

BY EDWIDGE DANTICAT

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019 04:00 AM, UPDATED SEPTEMBER 29, 2019 08:43 AM

Award winning writer Edwidge Danticat lives in Little Haiti.

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Editor’s note: Edwidge Danticat is an acclaimed Haitian-American author who lives in Little Haiti. Her most recent novel is “Everything Inside.” She wrote this essay for the Miami Herald.

The soul of Little Haiti is in the Haitiankonpa and Creole gospel music blasting from the neighborhood’s mom-and-pop shops, and the heated political discussions constantly taking place in our beauty parlors and barber shops.

The soul of Little Haiti is in the Little Haiti Cultural Center’s muraled plaza, especially when it’s packed with hundreds of revelers dancing and singing along to a favorite band. The soul of Little Haiti is in the smell of fried fish, pork, and goat wafting in the air on one side of a street and ground coffee on the other. The soul of little Haiti is in every jitney making its way down Northeast 2nd Avenue, while filled with commuters and stories.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/downtown-miami/article2355 53577.html

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