DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — This weekend an event in Springfield put a spotlight on the Haitian Revolution. Haiti’s status as the western hemisphere’s first free black republic was one of several historical ...

Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of Black History Month stories that explores the role of resistance to oppression in the Black community. It originally ran on Feb. 26, 2022. For Judith ...

Massachusetts has the third-largest Haitian diaspora in the country, with more than 87,000 Haitians calling the state home. The Haitian community has a long history in Massachusetts, and more migrants ...

Two hundred years after the Haitian Revolution, its complexity and spirit still live in surviving documents at the John Carter Brown Library. The library will feature an exhibition on the revolution ...

The United States is playing a leading role in the meeting at the United Nations this week, where countries will announce their commitment to help rebuild Haiti. The involvement of the United States ...

At a screening of his 2007 documentary about the Haitian revolution at the Watson Institute for International Studies last night, filmmaker Noland Walker discussed the implications of the momentous ...

Following many years of hidden and small-scale resistance, African slaves in the French colony of Saint Domingue (or San Domingo) rose up in 1791 against their colonizers and slave masters. By 1804, ...

As a scholar of 19th-century Haitian history and culture, I’ve dedicated a significant portion of my research to exploring Haiti’s particularly strong legal case for restitution from France. The story ...

JANUARY 1ST SIGNIFIES THE START OF A NEW CALENDAR YEAR. AND FOR THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY, A COMMEMORATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM FRENCH RULE. HAITI WAS THE FIRST NATION TO BE FOUNDED BY FORMERLY ENSLAVED ...

Marlene Daut’s deep dive into Haiti’s first — and only — king reads like a historical novel of a bygone era with Black princes and knights, an elaborate dress code and a palace, Sans-Souci, to match.