There has been a mass exodus of migration from Haiti to cities like New York, Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, etc. This may seem random and arbitrary to the random observer, but this has been a steady result of years of imperialism and government neglect, and the Haitian people have been singing about it the entire time. 

Dr. Naomi Andre, historical musicologist, tells us the story of the first opera by a Black American composer to be performed by a major opera company in the USA. This opera told the story of Jean Jacques Dessalines. She also sheds some light on some of the highs and lows of the realities of Blackness in the context of opera today.