Starting after Haiti won independence from French colonial rule, the small Caribbean nation was hit with a massive indemnity — or restitution — as a condition of its hard fought independence.

On April 17, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the formation of a joint commission with Haiti to examine their intertwined history, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the original ...

Haiti continues to be the victim of international collective punishment for daring to be the world’s first black-led republic and the first independent Caribbean state after it threw off the yoke of ...

These attacks on my language are a legacy of the French colonial design for Haiti’s impoverishment, which continues, centuries later, to drain us as a nation. In 1825, King Charles X imposed a ...

Few countries have struggled with development like Haiti. Since breaking free from French colonial rule over two centuries ago, the Caribbean state has weathered multiple foreign interventions ...

Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of Black History Month stories that explores the role of resistance to oppression in the Black community. It originally ran on Feb. 26, 2022.

Today, the Haitian flag is only red and blue. But by overthrowing colonial rule, Haiti never developed the democratic institutions of other now stable and prosperous Caribbean countries (except ...

Haiti, then called Saint-Domingue ... To sustain the island’s colonial economy—which predominantly centered on the production and export of crops like sugar, coffee and tobacco—French ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the formation of a joint commission with Haiti to examine their intertwined history On April 17, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the formation ...