PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – APRIL 5: Jean-Jacques Dessalines Statue and its surroundings are seen empty due to measures taken against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on ...

“Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a revolutionary who fought for his people and overthrew an oppressive regime who brutally enslaved and persecuted the Haitian people,” Williams, now the city’s ...

Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Janjak Desalin) (20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 ...

History revised Why Haiti founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s legacy has been so controversial in the US A Brooklyn street has been renamed to celebrate the Haitian slave turned president ...

Jean Jacques Dessalines (vigorous, grandly heroic Abner Genece), now a top-ranking officer in the French army under Napoleon, is enjoying the riches and prestige of his position when he learns of ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

Marie-Claire chooses herself over Jean-Jacques multiple times throughout their love story — usually to his consequence. She’s very much a woman who wants it all and refuses to subjugate herself.

“Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a revolutionary who fought for his people and overthrew an oppressive regime who brutally enslaved and persecuted the Haitian people,” Williams said.

The acting prime minister was headed to speak at the monument marking the spot where Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated just outside the capital, Port-au-Prince, but his convoy was turned ...

But the naming of Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard — along Rogers Avenue between Farragut Road and Eastern Parkway — and the neighborhood designation were not without complications.