The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it will terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti ...

Passengers by The 7 Fingers offers a unique blend of circus arts and storytelling, showcasing dynamic interactions on a train ...

Critics have applauded the cirque-de-soleil-style acrobatics, executed without the safety-net of a multi-million-dollar ...

At Buffet Kreol in Flatbush, Brooklyn, around the corner from the Little Haiti train station, an image of one of the fathers of Haiti, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, stands on the roof.

When folks talk about Haiti’s revolution, names like Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines get all the shine. But what about Sanité Bélair, who faced the firing squad with her head ...

Today Arcahaie, the city where Haiti’s first flag was sewn after leaders Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Alexandre Pétion decided to stop fighting alongside the French and join forces, is under ...

Indeed, the Republic of Haiti, which was proclaimed on January 1, 1804, by General Jean-Jacques Dessalines after his rebel forces won against a French expeditionary corps that arrived in Saint ...

At the time, Boyer had yielded to French demands, barely two decades after General Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806) won Haiti's war of independence, because the country was not in a position to ...

Dessalines, who’s considered the founder, first took the title of governor general. But by the end of the year, he was using the title emperor, as he had proclaimed Haiti to be an empire. So, almost ...

As Commander of the Revolutionary Army, Dessalines assembled 40,000 men and women to defeat Napoleon’s French Army attempting to re-enslave them. He was joined by Generals Henry Christophe and ...

Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, begins with a memory of blue: A missing dropped-ceiling tile in her grandmother’s bedroom reveals a glimpse of ...

It’s the roots," Alico Dessalines, band leader. After a set of Rara, Matt Jenson of the well-known Combo Sabrosa Latin band, will be back as DJ Cklockwize, spinning a set of salsa and reggae ...