Adolphe Duperly’s painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832. Wikimedia Commons
by Ana Lucia Araujo,...
Three owners of a South Florida security company were arrested Tuesday (February 14) in connection to the assassination of former Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
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The United States is a melting pot of cultures, ethnicities and ideologies. Seen as a mecca for many in underdeveloped countries, America is believed to...
Haitian President Jovenel Moise was killed early Wednesday morning after an attack at his private residence, according to the country's acting Prime Minister Claude...
Imagine if the United States passed a new bill that denied citizenship to everyone whose ancestors migrated to the United States anytime after 1929. If that was you, that means you would no longer have access to a birth certificate or passport nor could you enroll in universities or qualify for health insurance. Many, if not the majority of us, would be stuck in limbo — a disoriented state of statelessness. This is what Dominicans of Haitian descent are experiencing in the Dominican Republic today. Dominicans and Haitians share the beautiful island of “Hispaniola” but have always marginalized themselves from each other due to the Dominican Republic’s dark history of racial prejudice against Haitians. An ongoing conflict for centuries, hate crimes against Haitians in the Dominican Republic are still extremely common and ignored today. The Dominican government has failed to address the growing racism throughout the ...
