Explore 12 inspiring facets of the Haitian Revolution's positive impact, resilience, and beauty for Haitian Heritage Month.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Dozens of people swam and waded across Haiti’s longest river on Wednesday in a desperate attempt to ...

New Orleans celebrates Haitian Heritage Month with inaugural Haitian Food Crawl, highlighting Haiti’s culinary influence.

April 17, 2025, marks the 200th anniversary of that indemnity agreement. On Jan. 1 of this year, the now-former president of ...

May is Haitian Heritage Month and the New Orleans community is invited to take part in several events throughout the city.

Flag Day commemorates Haiti’s 1804 victory in its war of independence from France. Led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, the Haitian ...

In this authoritative, elegant biography, Daut draws a complex, contradictory portrait of Henry Christophe, also known as King Henry.

After two centuries, a contrite tone from President Emmanuel Macron, though no talk of reparations for French actions that ...

His statement blamed a revanchist monarchy for dashing those hopes, appearing to exempt Napoleon – who previously tried, and failed, to crush the Haitian Revolution and reimpose slavery – from ...