#Haiti 🇭🇹 celebrates its independence! Haitian Independence Day (Fèt Endepandans Ayiti) is celebrated every January 1. It marks the day in 1804 when Haiti declared independence from France, becoming the world’s first independent Black republic and the only nation founded by a successful slave revolt! 🙏🏽❤️ | Rolling Out

Every New Year’s Day, Haitians around the world consume soup joumou as a way to commemorate Haitian Independence Day. On January 1, 1804, Haitians declared independence from French colonial rule following the Haitian Revolution that began in 1791. Soup joumou is a savory, orange-tinted soup that typically consists of calabaza squash—a pumpkin-like squash native to the Caribbean—that’s cooked and blended as the soup’s base. To that base, cooks add beef, carrots, cabbage, noodles, potatoes and oth