Edwidge Danticat on the Devastation in Haiti

 

'In August of 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, leveling buildings in the western region of the country and killing around 1300 people. Hundreds are still missing and heavy rains from tropical depression Grace make relief efforts more complicated.  Before the earthquake, Haiti was already struggling with extreme poverty, systemic gang violence and a political crisis made worse by the recent assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.  And the country still has not fully recovered from the devastating earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince in 2010 and killed a staggering 300,000 people.  The Takeaway's Melissa Harris-Perry spoke with award-winning Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat.'