For 3 decades ⁦@amywilentz⁩ has faithfully chronicled the story of Haiti—through times of hope, despair, and desperate endurance. Here the story of another Notre Dame cathedral tells the story in miniature. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

Haiti, the First Nation born of a successful slave rebellion, was first to pay $21 billion (current $) to France in reparations. “A new cathedral isn’t all that France owes the Haitians, by any means, but it would be a beginning.”