A #FreeHaiti revolution week post: Today is August 22, 2022. We mark the auspicious occasion that begin the Hayti Revolution, 231 years ago and declare, once again, Èzili’s Hayti continues to resist all tyrants, despots, colonists and invaders. So much of our Afrikan Ancestor’s story has been distorted by establishment academics from the nations Hayti […]
Posts tagged Haiti Revolution
Her tongue is not cut out: The Hayti Resistance Speaks
(See Photo essay and Hayti Revolution commemorative events for August: here, here and here. Instagram: here, here. Please share these #FreeHaiti teach-in links and info with your networks. Join us for presentations on Zoom and live on FB on August 14, 16 and 21, 2022 from 12 to 3pm EST) Hayti Revolution Reflections for 2022 Women Warriors of Dahomey & Kongo In Hayti […]
The Haiti Resistance 1915 to 2022
“Three open doors wait for us to enter for making a truly progressive and just New World in the 21st century: all of Hayti as a World Heritage Site that’s not for sale in a Western Hemisphere with one passport and one minimum wage. Why not?”– Èzili Dantò, human rights lawyer Charlemagne Péralte and the Haiti […]
Legacy and Lessons of Haiti Revolution
Haitian Revolution Legacy & Lessons with Prof. James Small and Èzili Dantò at The Charles H. Wright African American Museum of History, Detroit, August 25, 2018 I am super honored to be on this panel with the brilliant Professor James Small, our living library of the struggle. Before the discussion, the audience watched the Tariq […]
Liv Boisrond Tonnerre vèsyon 1804
A Very Historic Moment in Caribbean Studies: Boisrond-Tonnerre’s Mémoires Pour Servir A L’Histoire D’Hayti, 1804. Thanks to Jean Jonassaint, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Syracuse University for making the 1804 memoir of Louis-Félix Boisrond Tonnerres, the first Hayti historian available online. “All the facts contained in these memoirs are part of the […]