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In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through ...
The link between the demise of the Creole pig and the crisis of Haiti is the subject of a new documentary produced by WLRN called The Creole Pig: Haiti’s Great Loss, which will air on WLRN TV ...
📜 The Haitian Revolution: The Slave Society - The Haitian Revolution is a unique historical event in many ways. It was both an offshoot of the French Revolution, but also an anti-colonialist ...
History mostly remembers the exploits of male freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution. Figures such as its leader, General Toussaint Louverture; Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who became the first ...
CRT, Teaching History, and the Haitian Revolution. 2/3/2023 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. For Black History Month, we speak with Marlene Daut, a history professor at Yale. Aired 02/03/2023 ...
Fabienne Josaphat, author of Kingdom of No Tomorrow, talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about the Black Panther movement, and its significance inside the U.S., and to Haitian people.
Opinion: Hate against Haitian immigrants ignores how US politics pushed them here As Haitians become a pawn in another U.S. election, it’s easy to forget about the real people caught in the middle.
The Haitian Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind 2016’s I Am Not Your Negro is set to make a documentary that follows the investigation into the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise.
We'll talk about the history of the revolution, plus learn more about how the local Haitian community grew in Massachusetts. This segment aired on August 21, 2024. Producer Picks ...
Filmmaker Raoul Peck‘s next documentary will delve into the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. The film, tentatively titled “The Hands That Held the Knives,” has been in ...
Sanité Bélair was a Haitian revolutionary leader who served in Toussaint Louverture's army. She rose through the ranks, first as a sergeant then a lieutenant, leading the charge in the Saint ...