Portrait

In a now-legendary photograph, he appears nailed to a door, the Haitian flag draped over his head. In 1919, the American marines thought they...

Marie Rose Cavelan is not an easy figure. Mixed-race, free, a slaveowner, co-instigator of an anti-British insurrection in Grenada in 1795, she embodies the...

Vincent Ogé, often relegated to the margins of the Haitian Revolution, was nevertheless one of the first to challenge the colonial racial order. A...

Discover the remarkable trajectory of Victor Cochinat (1819–1886), a Martiniquais lawyer, journalist, and committed intellectual, a forgotten figure of critical colonial thought under the...

Tippu Tip, a 19th-century Black trader, was one of the greatest slave merchants in African history. His path—marked by a commercial empire, colonial complicity,...

In 19th-century New Orleans, a free Black woman shook the powerful, healed the humble, and embodied the spiritual syncretism of African and Creole peoples....

He was a Crow chief, an army scout, a Rocky Mountains explorer — and yet his name has been erased from official accounts. Born...

She sang for Haiti, for Africa, for memory. Actress, activist, and priestess of the spoken word, Toto Bissainthe traversed exile and silence to give...

Poet of pain and priestess of resilience, Maya Angelou gave voice to the unspeakable with a pen of fire and a velvet voice. Through...