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Summary This episode explores the life and legacy of Haiti’s founding father, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, through the lens of historian Dr. Julia Gaffield. Drawing from untapped...

Summary This is an in-depth conversation with Professor Gaffield, who is writing a biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian revolutionary leader. Gaffield outlines the misconceptions...

Behind Every Mountain, more mountains. Haitians dream and create, turning struggles into strength, our histories into songs.

A friend from the neighborhood stopped by last night with his wife and their 18-year-old daughter, bright-eyed, standing at the edge of her future,...

Can the Haitian spirit subsist on mere words alone? Cast your minds back to the austere dominion of WordPerfect 5.1—a technological age when the...

What are our origins? Whether it was from civil rights activist Ella Baker who would ask fellow citizens: ‘Where do your people come from?’...

Every community has a story it tells about itself. It speaks of order, of safety, of shared sacrifice and shared benefit. But beneath that...

Summary Haiti, land of contradictions they say, where the past is not just remembered but lived. The soil still carries the footprints of revolution, the...

Summary Whenever I hear 1804 Haitian fanatics—those who shout with fevered breath about the glories of the Haitian Revolution, about the unshakable will of Christophe,...

Last night, the second installment of our monthly dominoes game was in full effect—just men, bonding, exhaling. The tiles slapped the table like punctuation...