August 30, 2018
By Julia Gaffield
Crowds cheered as local lawmakers on August 18 unveiled a street sign showing that Rogers Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn would now be called Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard, after a Haitian slave turned revolutionary general.
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August 14, 2018 BY ERIC A. GORDON
From left, Max Lawrence and Rodrick Jean-Charles / Ian Flanders
3rd September 2018
This one-day workshop will reflect on how (and how not) to write the history of colonial Haiti in the wake of the recent aid scandal.
It will bring together representatives from United Haitians in the United Kingdom, the Ethical Journalism Network, the EU External Action Service, the Haiti Support Group and the Haitian ambassadorial delegation, as well as a range of academics interested in the study of Saint-Domingue.
