This is why Manie Chery, 39, who hosts a YouTube series called “ Love for Haitian Food” believes the holiday should be more widely acknowledged. In the new book “ Black Futures,” by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham (a New York Times staff writer), the activist and writer Zoe Samudzi noted: “Haiti was the world’s first liberated Black nation, and her freedom in 1804 became a blueprint for Black insurrection and self-determination on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.” The Haitian Revolution inspired uprisings by enslaved people in other parts of the world, including the United States, and contributed to the ending of the slave trade. “We can invite all the people to understand our culture and what the day means to us.” The annual ritual “is a reminder that even though we are not home, we have something to hold onto our culture and bring all of us back together,” he said. But he is one of many Haitians planning safe ways to distribute soup joumou to their communities. Jean Simon won’t be having the big party this year.
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