Boston’s Haitian and Haitian-American activists fight for justice across borders and generations Rodline Louijeune still tears up when she talks about the earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010. She had visited Port-au-Prince just a few months before to see her uncle. While she was born and raised in Boston, her parents grew up in […]
BETWEEN THE BALLOT BOX AND BOGOTA
Part I in ‘A Higher Allegiance: The Rise of a Transnational Identity in Boston’s Immigrant Communities,’ a BINJ series (Click Here For Spanish Version) Ona recent cold Sunday evening in mid-November, Oscar Gutierrez landed at Logan Airport and immediately hopped on the Blue Line toward East Boston. In a rush and rocking his signature fedora, the […]