"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."

On January 1st of this year, Haiti and Africans around the world celebrated 217 years since declaring independence from French colonizers. Prior to The Haitian Revolution, local planters, the British, Spanish invaders and the French all fought to gain control over this tiny island formerly known as San Domingue in the Caribbean. Haiti has been a point of pride since learning that it is the only country that Blacks were able to successfully defeat an army of over 12,000 and "engaged in one of the greatest feats of human liberty."