One year after the murder of poet Schultz Laurent Junior, the time for justice has come in Philadelphia

There are deaths that cannot be left to silence, lives that violence snatches away from existence without managing to erase their imprint in the collective memory. Haitian poet Georges Schultz Laurent Junior is one of those. A year after his murder in Philadelphia, as the suspect appears before the American justice system on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Pradel Henriquez, poet, writer, and former Minister of Culture, lends his pen to pain, indignation, and hope. In this text of memory and conscience, he summons words to express the ab