Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here we are, celebrating the first Sunday of 2024. Perhaps the word “celebrating” is not quite appropriate, seeing how the new ...

WNYC’s community partnerships team set out to tell the stories of our communities through the food we share. You can listen to those stories here. For many people, New Year’s is about watching ...

Jones Pierre had typically celebrated Haitian Independence Day with his wife at their home eating soup joumou, a meal enslaved Africans in Haiti were forbidden from eating, to honor the day ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP)- Thursday, Haitians around the world celebrate Independence Day, honoring the moment Haiti gained its freedom from France on Jan. 1, 1804. The local Haitian community in ...

For Wilfred Cadet, buying soup on Sunday is the equivalent of going to church. Seated on plastic chairs next to a street food stand tucked in an alleyway, the 47-year-old Haitian slurps orange-colored ...

Most New Year’s Day food traditions are meant to bring good luck into the new calendar year. For example, the custom of eating collard greens and black-eyed peas on the first day of the new year has ...

Gathering on New Year’s Day for ‘soup Joumou,’ a traditional Haitian pumpkin soup, is a great way to meet people from different cultures and break down barriers, writes Bea Hines. jeffery a. salter ...

Here we are, celebrating the first Sunday of 2024. Perhaps the word “celebrating” is not quite appropriate, seeing how the new year came in just about how it went out — with violence and upheaval in ...