January Twenty-Fifth

TO THE brave women of Haiti, grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, daughters, and friends, on this shore and other shores. We have stumbled but we will not fall.

-- EDWIDGE DANTICAT
Presidential palace on day President renews his term of office w. armed forces outside. Port Au Prince, Haiti, May 1963. Photographer: Michael Rougier. Life magazine archives.