every year on New Year’s Day, Haitian Independence Day, they will eat the soup. This story of triumph, celebration, and reclamation is one that I, and many other Haitians and their descendants ...

In preparing soup joumou on New Year’s Eve in ... ability to open doorways or opportunities. Haitian and Black American New Year’s Eve traditions across faith backgrounds call us to taste ...

According to media reports, those hoping for happiness and success should wear yellow, and those hoping for financial luck in the new year should wear green underwear. Eat soup joumou to celebrate ...

Over the next years, Félicité transformed soup joumou from a bowl of anti-Blackness and exclusion into a Haitian delicacy that was packed with new meaning: emancipation, decolonization, and Black ...