Frankétienne, a renowned writer, painter, actor and musician known as the “father of Haitian letters” has died. He was 88.

The Haitians were fleeing the repressive regimes of François Duvalier and his son, but Reagan’s team denied them political asylum and sent them back to the oppressive regime. But it wasn’t ...

GREEN: In 1964, Francois Duvalier declares himself, "president for life," Papa Doc. This is a full-on dictatorship, and it is violent. Anyone who was perceived to be against Duvalier were met with ...

They tell a narrative about the Duvalier regime today as if it was one regime. And it's in the interest of the bourgeois, because it was two regimes. >> The era of the two Duvalier regimes began ...

Born on Feb. 14, 1964, in Gonaïves, a commune in northern Haiti, Danielle Georges was a child when her parents escaped the dictatorship of François Duvalier and moved to what was then the ...

Soon after, the brutal reign of Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier took over Haiti. Now, despite his grandfather being the leader of a nation, Benjamin didn't know much about him. The desire to fill in ...

Her father, an attorney, was imprisoned during Francois Duvalier's reign in Haiti. And she remembers reading her father's books as a child, biographies and memoirs of leaders in the Civil Rights ...