‘We’ve been offered a myopic view of history’: folk singer Leyla McCalla untangles Haiti’s complex roots - The Guardian

The Haitian-American musician, known for Carolina Chocolate Drops and Our Native Daughters, has seen her country harshly disparaged in the US – so she is trying to tell its true story

Leyla McCallas memories of Haiti fall somewhere in the hazy space between dream and reality, in the way so many childhood recollections do. She can still hear the goats that would gather outside her … [+7861 chars]

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