5 Questions With Rich Benjamin

Rich Benjamin grew up knowing almost nothing about his family’s history, including that his grandfather, Daniel Fignolé, was once the president of Haiti for 19 days before being overthrown by a coup and exiled with his family to the United States. Through many years of research, Rich uncovered the events that shaped his grandfather, his mother, and himself, as well as the nations that shaped them in return.

As a cultural researcher and critic, Rich Benjamin tells a story in Talk to M e that is int...