Haiti

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
COMMENTARY: The Audacity of Hopelessness, John Maxwell, 2009
28 Sep 2022
The late Jamaican journalist John Maxwell on imperialism, underdevelopment, and the foreign love affair with Haiti’s misery.
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
The "Leftism" of the Americas Collapses at the Door of Haitian Sovereignty
28 Sep 2022
While many are celebrating the potential rise of another “Pink Tide” in Latin America and the emergence of a truly multipolar world, it seems clear that the fight for Haitian sovereignty will c
AlterPresse
In Response to Antonio Guterres, Haitian Organizations Point to the Responsibility of the UN in the "Gangsterization of Haiti"
28 Sep 2022
The United Nations is complicit in what is referred to as the "gangsterization" of Haiti. The existence of criminal gangs is the result of UN Core Group interference yet is now the pretext for…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Asylum, Migration and U.S. Foreign Policy
21 Sep 2022
Immigration rules are often determined by U.S. foreign policy. Citizens of nations under U.S. attack, such as Venezuela, are made eligible for asylum. Haitians suffer under U.S. dictates but are…
Peoples Dispatch
At Least One Person Dead After a New Day of Anti-Government Protests in Haiti
07 Sep 2022
Haitians have been mobilizing against the Ariel Henry administration’s inability to combat crime, inflation and poverty. All of these ills are a direct result of Haiti's status as a puppet of the U.S…
Melissa Béralus
Why Does the United States Continue to Occupy a Haitian Island?
31 Aug 2022
The U.S. mined a million tons of guano on a Haitian island without paying a cent to the Haitian authorities. Other countries have sold the product for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Haiti Under the Rule of the United States, Dantès Bellegarde, 1927
31 Aug 2022
Dantès Bellegarde’s 1927 editorial on the US occupation of Haiti speaks to the present.
Berthony Dupont
Haiti: Beware of Washington's Trap!
24 Aug 2022
The United States uses its puppet, the Organization of American States, to continue destabilizing Haiti.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Crystal Eddins’ Book, “Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution”
20 Jul 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Crystal Eddins. Eddins is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte.…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Negro Revolutionary Hero: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Cyril Briggs, 1929
20 Jul 2022
In 1929, Black radical Cyril Briggs penned an essay on Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution. For Briggs, both provided inspiration for the fight against the U.S. occupation of Haiti. We…