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I wrote this essay when the earthquakes happened in Haiti on January 12, 2010; I re-released it when Trump called Haiti and African nations "shithole countries" in 2018. I'm releasing it today after Trump's claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. I am Haitian, second generation: one hundred percent. My parents have inhabited this country for forty-five years, but they are Haitian to ...
I Am the Proud Daughter of Haitian Immigrants
Sep 14, 2024
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I wonder how often Maya Rudolph listens to her mother, Minnie Ripperton, sing "Loving You." Her mother, who passed when Maya was young, wrote and recorded that song as a lullaby for her baby girl and son. There's a video clip of Ripperton singing the song on a talk show . Flowers adorn her afro as she sings at an octave normally preserved for the angels. At the end, she sings "Maya, Maya, Maya, Ma...
For Mother's Day
May 12, 2024
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Do you watch Succession? Have you watched the episode everyone is talking about yet? I won't spoil anything here. But I will share what I appreciate about the episode everyone is talking about. The writer and producer Jessie Armstrong took a big swing. He made a choice most people would be too scared to make. He subverted expectations. When the episode ended, the writer in me did a slow clap. What...
On Succession and taking a big swing: no spoilers
Apr 18, 2023
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