He became wealthy working as a hairdresser in New York, then used his funds to free enslaved people, build churches and house orphans of color. A portrait of Pierre Toussaint from 1825.Credit...Robert ...

Three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to stop all air traffic, Haiti’s main international airport reopened. The Toussaint-Louverture Airport reopened on May 20 in ...

Funded by the City of Philadelphia, Mural Arts Philadelphia commissioned Philadelphia artist Claes Gabriel to create an original Mural on the facade of Super Star Barbershop located at 500 W Olney Ave ...

Aristocrat, c. 1740 -- Child, c. 1743-1754 -- Slave, 1754 -- Revolutionary apprentice, 1757-1773 -- Family man, 1761-1785 -- Freedman, c. 1772-1779 -- Slave driver ...

Toussaint L'Ouverture was one of the majors leaders of the Haitian Revolution. The new Toussaint L’Ouverture Cultural Center of Massachusetts, set to celebrate its groundbreaking near TD Garden on the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Mammoth Screen, the British producer behind series including The Serpent and Poldark, is developing a television drama based on the 18th Century slave uprising in Haiti. The story will be ...

The French president paid tribute to Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, but said nothing about the lingering effects of France’s slaving past. By Constant Méheut and Catherine ...

C.L.R. James, adapted by Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee. Verso, $24.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-78873-790-6 This forceful and cinematic adaptation by comics newcomers Watts and Karimjee turns ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) — Off Del Rio Park in Franklin lies the final resting place for many Williamson County African Americans. In the late 1800s, the Toussaint L’Ouverture Cemetery was created. It ...