Liberty in a Soup

Every New Year, and in celebration of their Independence, Haitian families gather together to feast in honor of a line of ancestors that fought for their freedom. The centerpiece of the festivity is the joumou soup—a traditional soup dating back centuries ago. The joumou soup is a concretization of war and victory, oppression and emancipation, and the deeply rooted celebratory traditions of the Haitian culture.

• Dudley AlexisWriter
• Dudley AlexisDirector

• Edwidge DanticatSelf
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• Karenne CadetSelf
• Wislaine Charles CadetSelf
• Jean Claude ExulienSelf
• Bayyainah E. BelloSelf
• Edwine TheveninSelf
• Ludlow E. BaileySelf
• Benjamin HebblethwaiteSelf
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