With new focus on Haiti’s payments to France to compensate enslavers, here’s a look at how this happened in the United States, too. By Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post —…
During the year 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted the French and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom. How much it cost them was a…
Monday, May 16, 2022 — On this edition of Vantage Point, The Professor Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guests Dr. Leon Pamphile and Professor James Small. Topic #1:…
Four scholars of race, religion and immigration explain how US refugee and asylum policy has long been racially and religiously discriminatory in practice. By Laura E. Alexander, Jane Hong, Karen…
‘In Haiti, 500,000 children have lost access to education due to gang-related violence’. Clashes between two rival gangs in the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince have claimed the lives…
By Local 10 News, South Florida — The U.S. Coast Guard reported finding a sailboat with 89 migrants — some of whom asked for help — on Saturday about 17…
The Biden administration needs a new policy toward migrants fleeing violence and poverty and to get behind grassroots democratic reform. By The Boston Globe — How much longer is the…
Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always…
By The Washington Post — Haiti has descended into a state of political, economic and security collapse. The free fall in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country is accelerating, and it…
How kidnapping became normal in Haiti. By Mary Harris, Slate — Kidnapping has become normal in Haiti. So normal that when Jacqueline Charles, who reports on the Caribbean for the…
Haiti aided Latin American independence movements; Latinxs are returning the favor with silence & broken promises By France Francois, Refinery29— In 1815, Spain’s defeat of Simón Bolívar’s revolutionary army in…
By Michael Posner, NYT — Last month, the Biden administration announced that it had cleared a makeshift tent camp where thousands of Haitians had congregated under a bridge linking Mexico and Del…