Amidst it all, the French West Indies—Martinique, Guadeloupe and their islet dependencies—glide ever closer to full membership in Charles de Gaulle’s French Community. Sipping white rum and ...

But the French West Indies — Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guadeloupe’s six dependencies — seem as placid as the emerald waters that lap their pearl-white beaches. In the westernmost backwater ...

Now, it’s back in a restoration. By Juan A. Ramírez It’s safe to say that the Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s “West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty” is a unique film.