Bricks in My Bookbag

What do you do when survival means carrying rocks to school? In this deeply personal testimony episode, Prof. Darline Riggs shares what it was like to flee Haiti at 9 years old, arrive in Miami speaking no English, and face relentless bullying simply for being Haitian. From learning to fight back to learning to forgive, this is the story of how pain became purpose — and how the very things that were meant to break her became the foundation for everything she's built.