Opinion
How Do We Haitian?
Despite the venom Trump and Vance direct toward our community, Haitians are not the impoverished, alien invaders they want us to be.
Haiti
Art
Kathia St. Hilaire Collages the Complex History of Haiti
Like the narratives she portrays, St. Hilaire’s artistic technique is layered and complex, and reflects vernacular cultural aesthetics and practices.
News
Armed Groups in Haiti Ransack National Library
The institution holds a collection of rare books, manuscripts, and newspaper archives significant to the Caribbean nation’s history and heritage.
News
Warring Gangs Wreak Terror on Haiti Artists' Village
Hundreds have been displaced and at least 15 killed in gang clashes at the Village Artistique de Noailles, famous for its metalworks cherished the world over.
History
Ancient Rome and the Myth of the Black Avenger
Long before Black Panther, early modern Europeans embraced a different kind of Black avenger, one largely constructed by White abolitionists.
Art
A Tender Mural Graces San Francisco’s Tenderloin District
Erlin Geffrard’s bright mural celebrates his parents and the struggle of working-class people.
Film
Elena Is a Proud Celebration of Haitian Heritage in the Dominican Republic
Michèle Stephenson’s documentary short finds beauty in qualities of Haitian life which the Dominican government scorns.
Film
The Ghosts and Zombies of Haiti's Colonial Past
Zombi Child and Ouvertures delve into France's lingering influences on Haiti.
Art
An Artist Illuminates Our Need to be Seen and Recognized
The indispensability of recognition is simultaneously made both more urgent and more complicated when you realize, as Yelaine Rodriguez does, that we are mutable, never sufficing to be just one person.
Art
How to Envision the Revolution
The Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act 1 exhibition suggests that agency has everything to do with seeing rather merely being seen.
Interview
Photographing Queer Life in Port-au-Prince
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities have long kept a low profile because of a strong social stigma that sparks fear of physical violence or social isolation.
Art
How Mosaics Are Shaping Haiti's Future
When the 2010 earthquake hit Haiti, it leveled much of Jacmel's colonial architecture, and the streets were given over to piles of rubble. In the wake of this disaster, visitors to the country's cultural capital might be surprised to find that dozens of mosaics now enliven its walls, plazas, and pub