BROCKTON — One Haitian migrant’s dream is to invest in his community, and he did it in the best way he knows, through music and culture. Pelege Marcellin, 44, made a significant financial decision ...
Kidnapping for ransom has quickly become a multi-million-dollar business for armed gangs roaming the slums of Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince. After being released, many kidnapping victims leave ...
Turn on your favorite urban contemporary Miami radio station and you will hear a rotation of hip-hop, dancehall, reggaeton and Afrobeats, the fast-rising music set to percussive African beats with a ...
New Orleans-based musician Leyla McCalla will mark Haitian-American Heritage Month in May with the release of a new album influenced by her research into Radio Haiti-Inter. The album "Breaking the ...
Lakou Mizik are a multi-generational Haitian collective that combine traditional Haitian styles like vodou, Rara, and compro with world music adventurousness. The band formed in the wake of the ...
Radio Carnivale is the first Haitian-owned radio station in the nation (not counting pirate stations and two so-called FM subcarriers that can be picked up only by a specially tuned radio). The Kreyol ...
Mike Stephen discusses the role of local journalists during a time of local ICE occupation with McKinley Park News publisher ...
Haiti's influence on one of America's most musical cities is explored in a new audio documentary, Kanaval, hosted by Leyla McCalla and produced by... Much of what distinguishes New Orleans today from ...
Rasanbleman (Red Moon) is Haitian creole for "a large gathering." It refers to the group of nearly 30 musicians and artists who got together for... Paul Beaubrun's Album 'Rasanbleman (Red Moon)' Is A ...
It’s a Sunday afternoon in May, and the sun is hot but not too hot to keep people from dancing in the Little Haiti Cultural Center’s courtyard. The Little Haiti Book Festival is taking place, and ...
Applied ecologist Greg Cronin has spent a lot of time in Haiti in various capacities over the past decade: working as associate professor of integrative biology and sustainability at the University of ...
The caller from Boston was desperate. She had just received a text message Tuesday from a friend trapped in the rubble of a Port-au-Prince school and needed to get the news to rescuers, the Haitian ...