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The Cocaine Chronicles (And Other Drugs)
A few weeks ago, I was at the Curacao courthouse to report on the sentencing of a Curacao-born Olympic athlete for the Netherlands who was arrested carrying cocaine while attempting to board a plane...
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No, You Can’t Call Curacaoans Slaves In Front of Me. Thanks.
There have been two instances where I have felt pretty uncomfortable as a Black/African-American woman here in Curacao. The first such instance was during the time of Sinterklaas/Zwarte Piet back in...
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8 Months In
I meant to do the obligatory It’s-been-6-Months-Since-I-Arrived-Here post but I was away in Europe, and so much has been going on, so I apologize! Well, it’s been almost 9 months since I decided to...
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Goodbye Curacao…
Well my friends, after 11 months of Caribbean adventure, I have decided to return to the United States. As I hope you could tell from my blog, I had my share of amazing and challenging experiences that...
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A Caribbean Country of Champions
(I’m going to use this space to post unpublished stories that I wrote during my time in Curacao. Here is a story I did last year after the San Francisco Giants won the World Series last year. I had a...
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Curacao’s Jewish Community: In Danger of Disappearing?
Almost every Shabbat weekend in Curacao, the pews in the Western Hemisphere’s oldest synagogue in use remain largely empty. The sound of the spiritual leader singing parts of the service in Spanish,...
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2014….Looking ahead
First of all, I want to thank everyone who followed me on my hijinks in Curacao. I definitely am grateful for the opportunity I had to connect with many people through this blog and my time in the...
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Is the African Diaspora Dropping the Ball?
Last night, I attended the Andrew Young Lecture at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Africa Society. The main attraction of the night was Assistant Secretary of State for African...
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War is the Worst of Thieves
When I was in my last semester of graduate school two years ago, I took a course on “Rethinking Human Rights”, cause well, I had to. We were called on to write a paper of our choosing, and I decided...
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Hello again!
Well, hello! It has been a while! I apologize for the lack of posts! Most of you may know that after leaving Curacao in August, I decided to move to Washington D.C. with little more a bit of hope and...
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