In a world that often sees Haiti as just a place of struggle, the holiday provides an opportunity for Haitians ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julia Gaffield, William & Mary (THE CONVERSATION) Every Oct. 17, Haiti celebrates ...

NEW YORK — Stephania Casimir, a first-generation Haitian-American, remembers her parents talking about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a former slave who became one of Haiti’s founding fathers, but not all ...

Members of Brooklyn’s Haitian community cheered officials as they unveiled a new street sign in honor of a native forefather at the corner of Rogers and Newkirk avenues on Saturday. The newly co-named ...

Some of the city’s biggest elected Christopher Columbus haters spearheaded an effort in the City Council to rename a Brooklyn street after Haitian emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines — who is infamous for ...

The New York City Council voted on Wednesday to approve a controversial proposal to co-name a Brooklyn street after a man who led Haiti’s historic slave rebellion — but who also brutally massacred ...