Welcome to My Substack

Welcome to My Substack

By Garry Pierre-Pierre

For more than three decades, I’ve told stories about power, race, migration, and belonging — stories that sit at the intersection of identity and democracy. As a journalist, I’ve worked in newsrooms from The New York Times to The Haitian Times, covering everything from politics in Port-au-Prince to protests in Brooklyn. Through it all, one truth has remained constant: America’s biggest story is still the one it keeps trying not to tell itself.

This Substack is my new home for telling that story — unfiltered, personal, and unhurried.

Here, I’ll write about the unfinished work of American democracy, the global ripple effects of Haiti’s struggles, and the shifting terrain of race and migration in a world that feels both smaller and more divided than ever. I’ll explore what it means to live at the crossroads — between nations, languages, and histories — and to make sense of a country that still hasn’t decided who it wants to be.

“I’m not interested in chasing headlines. I’m interested in what headlines reveal about us.”

My debut essay, The House Is on Fire: White America’s Own Civil War, looks at the fractures within whiteness that are now defining our national crisis — a fire that’s been burning since the Civil War and that, under Donald Trump’s leadership, now threatens to consume the house we all live in.

This space will not be about outrage. It will be about clarity. About naming what’s burning — and imagining what could be built in its place.

If you’ve followed my work through The Haitian Times, you know my belief that journalism, at its best, connects people — across differences, across borders, across fears. I want to carry that spirit here, to think aloud with you about where we are and where we might go next.

So welcome. Pull up a chair. Let’s talk about power, history, and the choices that will shape what comes after the fire.

— Garry