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T ucked away in a hillside garden a short walk from the restive heart of Port-au-Prince, the Hotel Oloffson was a strange kind of refuge. Through good years and a lot of bad ones, it stayed open to ...
The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Harold Isaac, a reporter based in Port-au-Prince, about the iconic Hotel Oloffson ...
Prince, long a haven for artists and writers, poets and presidents, a symbol of Haiti's troubled politics and its storied ...
Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that ...
The hotel’s burning was confirmed to the Miami Herald by proprietor Richard A. Morse, who also announced the destruction on X ...
Haitian art has journeyed from Iowa to the walls of Miami’s Little Haiti. Titled “Global Borderless Caribbean XVI: Haiti in the Heartland,” the public art exhibition, is a collaboration of ...
Serge Toussaint is an artist whose murals adorn many buildings in Little Haiti.
"This play is really my calling card." says Whitney. Originally written in Haitian Creole by Frankétienne, one of Haiti's best-known playwrights, it was translated to English twenty seven years ...
Although there have not been widespread reports of threats or harassment in Chicago, the community plans to show support for the Haitians in Ohio with a “Stop the Haitian Hate” rally Sunday at ...
When the general director of the Haitian Olympic Committee, Patrick Blanchet, commissioned fashion designer Stella Jean to create Haiti’s Olympic uniforms, the moment felt like a “political ...
The story of "Guede Papillon" dates back to the exhibition and auction "Haiti : the Artistic Exhibition" organized in Paris in October 2017, where it was presented among the creations of 59 other ...
Jimmy Chérizier, the elite police officer-turned-gang leader known as “Barbecue,” has risen through Haiti’s political vacuum to become one of the country’s most powerful men.