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Africana Studies Food & Community Event: Freedom Soup, A Haitian Celebration of the New Year
Africana Studies Food & Community Event: Freedom Soup, A Haitian Celebration of the New Year
Join us for a warming bowl of history and hope! Discover soup joumou, Haiti’s cherished pumpkin soup that embodies the spirit of liberation. Once forbidden to enslaved people, this rich, savory soup became the first meal Haitians shared as free people on January 1, 1804—the day Haiti declared independence as…