Résultats de la recherche: Haiti

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

In 1802, under the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte, hundreds of Guadeloupeans and Haitians were torn from their homeland and forcibly sent to Corsica. Their...

On April 17, 1825, France imposed a colossal debt on Haiti in exchange for recognition of its independence. A royal decree signed under military...

He was one of the first Black elected officials of the French Republic. A powerful, lucid, and combative voice that rose in the halls...

Doctor, intellectual, forgotten pioneer: François Fournier de Pescay was the first Afro-descendant (though not the first African) to practice medicine in Europe. Born between...

Between 1802 and 1803, several thousand Black and mulatto soldiers who had been captured were executed by drowning in the harbor of Cap-Français, in...

In 1915, after the lynching of President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, U.S. Marines landed in Port-au-Prince and placed Philippe Sudre Dartiguenave at the head of...

Born the son of a slave in Georgia, Eugene Bullard found in France the freedom that America denied him. A legionnaire at Verdun, the...

The history of the enslavement of African peoples is complex and often misunderstood. Correcting these misconceptions is essential to fostering a more accurate and...

François Duvalier was the austere leader of the Republic of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. Initially a doctor committed to fighting poverty-related diseases and...