Lucien Calixte, 40, pushed Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s Statue that was located at La Place de Notre-Dame du Cap-Haitien, breaking it into pieces on Thursday.
Haiti, News, Women & Children
President visits future site of the Lycée Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Monday, Feb. 10, President Jovenel Moise made a special visit to the future site of the future Lycée Jean-Jacques Dessalines. …
Haiti, Special Reports
Haiti Protests Summon Spirit of the Haitian Revolution to Condemn a President Tainted by Scandal
Julia Gaffield, Georgia State University A radical, unlikely figure has emerged as the icon of Haiti’s months-long protests against President…
Warped Lens
An Ode To Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s Liberator
In its 2008 carnival song Defile, the group RAM, paid homage to Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s chief liberator. “We celebrate Dessalines’…
Haitian Times Morning News Roundup
Haitian Times News Roundup – Aug. 30
Parliamentary Committee Proposes To Amend Haiti’s Constitution
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Meet Haiti’s founding father, whose black revolution was too radical for Thomas Jefferson
Crowds cheered as local lawmakers on August 18 unveiled a street sign showing that Rogers Avenue in the Flatbush section…
Haitian Times Morning News Roundup
Haitian Times News Roundup – Aug. 27
PetroCaribe PetroCaribe: Twitter Campaign Highlights Corruption In Haiti A few hundred demonstrators participated in a sit-in in front of the…
New York, Video
Haitian Community Gathers in East Flatbush for Jean-Jacques Dessalines Blvd. Unveiling
On Aug. 18, dozens of members of the Haitian community gathered in East Flatbush for the unveiling of Jean-Jacques Dessalines…
New York, News
Proposal to Coname Brooklyn Street After Haiti Founding Father Makes Headway
On April 18, Community Board 17, which represents the neighborhoods of East Flatbush, Northeast East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut/Hyde Park, Remsen Village, Ditmas Village and Erasmus, voted to co-name Rogers Avenue, from Farragut to Eastern Parkway, with Jean Jacques Dessalines Blvd.