The plane was bound for Saint-Domingue, in the Dominican Republic, departing from New York's John F. Kennedy airport. 257 killed, Algiers ...

The plane was bound for Saint-Domingue, in the Dominican Republic, departing from New York’s John F Kennedy airport. – 257 killed, Algiers – On April 11, 2018, an Ilyushin Il-76 heavy ...

Haiti was the second Republic in the Western Hemisphere, and the U.S. the first. Free men of color from the French colony of Saint-Domingue — what is now Haiti — fought in the American Revolution.

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

On the bicentennial of the French royal ordinance of April 17, 1825, which recognized the independence of the former French colony of Saint-Domingue, Emmanuel Macron said that the decision ...

A dangerous precedent Rewriting the history of Haiti has long been standard practice in Saint-Domingue's former colonial power.

An 1802 operation, led by General Leclerc, to regain control of Saint-Domingue – and to restore slavery there, at any cost – failed miserably, due to the ravages of malaria and resistance from ...

French President Emmanuel Macron plans to mark the 200th anniversary of Haiti’s independence debt to France by announcing a series of initiatives. But will they be enough?

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the Caribbean nation’s calls for restitution are becoming harder to ignore.

A devastating incident occurred in Saint-Domingue, leaving at least 66 people dead and over 150 injured following the collapse of a nightclub roof during a performance by renowned merengue singer ...

A large monument in a central square in Savannah, Georgia honors the Chasseurs-Volontaires of Saint-Domingue, a regiment of free men of African descent from what is now Haiti, who fought there for ...

Haitian Author’s Decade-Long Odyssey Uncovers The Nation’s Triumphant, Tragic Past In 5-Book Series Research for Bayard's "Triumph to Tragedy" five-book saga traces back to a Haitian ancestor ...