A new book by Historian Julia Gaffield analyzes the mixed legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti's first head of state post ...

On this date we remember Haiti’s founder General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who was killed after becoming the first world leader in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery. PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – ...

On January 1, 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of Haiti’s founding fathers, and the first Black head of state in the Americas, declared the country’s independence after a fourteen-year war with ...

Two centuries before Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by mercenaries in a brutal attack on his home, another Haitian leader was murdered. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who served under ...

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 ...

“Sister Mother Warrior” by Georgia author Vanessa Riley is a fictionalized account of the 18th century Haitian Revolution told through the two women who loved and supported the first emperor of Haiti, ...

Haitian Flag Day commemorates the creation of Haiti’s flag, a symbol deeply rooted in the nation’s struggle for independence. On May 18, 1803, amid the Haitian Revolution, leaders like Jean-Jacques ...

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 ...

When folks talk about Haiti’s revolution, names like Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines get all the shine. But what about Sanité Bélair, who faced the firing squad with her head high? Or ...

From under his feathered scarlet bicorn, Jean-Jacques Dessalines looks northward with defiance from Lior’s Cafe. The general, who kicked the French out of what they called Saint-Domingue in 1804, was ...