Boston’s Haitian American community is preparing for the grand opening of the Toussaint Louverture Cultural Center on May 20, ...

Many commentators have strained to make sense of the connection to Haiti. PHOTO COURTESY OF HAITILIBRE.COM Early coverage of Pope Leo XIV has ...

Early coverage of Pope Leo XIV has explored the first American pontiff's Chicago upbringing , as well as the many years he ...

It's not 1981, you know. We have so many more voices out there to bear witness,” Danticat says. “It's a very interesting ...

Two centuries ago, in 1825, the French state imposed a tribute on Haiti to compensate slave owners for their loss of property. This debt, which the fragile Haitian state had to struggle to repay until ...

Latin America is a geographical, geopolitical, and cultural concept defined by the common characteristics of some of the ...

"Most people survive thanks to remittances from relatives abroad. Commerce is informal, and healthcare is extremely ...

Whereas Australia had independence conferred upon it, in a process that has arguably still not fully been embraced, Haiti’s predominantly slave population ... establishing an independent republic as ...

1955— Legendary educator Mary McLeod Bethune dies at 79 in Daytona Beach, Fla. Born the 15th of 17 children in Mayesville, S.C., Bethune would rise to become one of the nation’s foremost Black ...

In his research on Leo’s lineage, he was also able to find several official documents that list Haiti as the birthplace of his maternal grandfather, Joseph Norval Martinez. The pope’s Creole ...