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Lists of Haiti-related websites. These websites have been compiled for the benefit of the community and are not associated with with The Louverture Project, except where indicated.

Art and Photography

Audio and Video

• YouTube: Black August 2004 by Mumia Abu Jamal (audio/video) - Read by Mr. Jamal, set to music track and images of war.
  • Black August 2004 by Mumia Abu Jamal (text version) - Mumia Abu Jamal comments on the Haitian Revolution culminating in the events of 1804(2004).

Visual Arts

• ArtMedia Haiti - The Center of Haitian Art. Some art is available for purchase online.
• Arts of Haiti - Arts of Haiti provides a sales point for several artists working in and near Cap Haitien.
• Carrie Art Collection - art collectors in Petion-Ville. The web site has a collection of images online.
• Landau Traveling Exhibitions: Toussaint Louverture Series by Jacob Lawrence - Prints by the late Jacob Lawrence with accompanying text.
  • Toussaint Louverture Series by Jacob Lawrence - Just the (larger) images of the Lawrence prints.
• Laurent Valere - Martinique based artist who painted a series centered on Haitian national hero Charlemagne Péralte.
• Caribbean Passion: Haiti: 1804 - Series of paintings London-based artist, Kimathi Donkor to celebrate Haiti's bicentenary.
• Grabado Latinoamericano: Linocut illustrations from Damballah's House a novel by Petion Savain. Haiti 1939.

Photography

• Opus Focus - has a wonderful collection of photographs by Daniel Kedar from Haiti and elsewhere.
• Leah Gordon Photography - Images of Haitian vodou.
• Haiti Dream Keeper Archives: Images from Haiti's National Palace website from President Aristide's second administration

Authors

• Web site of the author Jean Métellus - (In French)

Culture: Music and More

• Mapou Productions - Promoting Haitian culture throughout the world.

Music and Dance

Dance & Haitian Drumming

• The Ezilidanto Spoken Word Dance Theater
• La Troupe Makandal - traditional Afro-Haitian music and dance with master drummer Frisner Augustin, based in New York City.
• Tonel Lakay Dance Theatre - Brooklyn, NY based Haitian dance group, teaching adults and children the dance, music, culture and language of Haiti.
  • Phothographs of Tonel Lakay performing - Images by Dominique Esser.

Music

• Information about Haitian Music
  • La Médiathèque Caraïbe: Vodou music in Haiti - Information and background on Haitian Vodou music by Dr. Lois Wilcken, the Executive Director of La Troupe Mackandal.

• Performers:
  • Alix "Buyu" Ambroise - Fusion of Jazz and traditional Haitian music.
  • Emeline Michel - "La Reine de la Chanson Creole"
  • Mozayik - "Jazz with a Haitian flavor"
  • Tabou Combo - One of Haiti's most famous Konpa bands.

General Resources

• Haiti’s Super Web Directory Emmanuel W. Vedrine’s big list of links.
• Haiti Forum - a link portal promoting Haiti and Haitian culture.
• Haiti Info Bi-lingual blog-style list of news reports and other articles.
• Haiti-Référence French – a wealth of information on Haiti past and present, including the text of Toussaint's Constitution of 1801.

.* Haiti Support Group – Very accessible web site with news for travelers, event updates, and a brief summary of famous Haitians.

• InterMedia - Big, good looking site, lots of Haiti links. Especially check out the Haiti Global Village, a bilingual online community of Haitians
• Journal of Haitian Studies - Part of the Center for Black Studies, this is the "official publication of the Haitian Studies Association," a refereed scholarly journal.
• Kreyol.com - Excellent site by artist Hertz Nazaire. Includes a Creole dictionary online. Check out the new book - Revolution 1804-2004.
• Kreyol Belle – articles and pictures from living in Haiti, including a translation of an 1871 tour of the country, introductions to St Mark, Ti Riviere et Kenscoff.
• Latin American Network Information Center's Haiti Page - a portal page with many good links.
• Multicultural Florida - Long list of links suffers from lack of organization.
• Soul in a Bottle – Madison Smartt Bell's "work in progress about contemporary Haiti."
• Windows on Haiti – Huge resource of links to news, views, arts, and culture.

Haitian Creole

• The Creole Clearinghouse - a lengthy page of links to Haiti-related resources in Creole, English and French.
• Haitian Creole Dictionary - Haitian Creole, English, French and Spanish online dictionary.
• Haitian Creole to English Dictionary - Webster's Online Dictionary.
• Haitian Creole language - Wikipedia page about the Haitian Creole language.
• Kreyòl Wikipedia Pages - Paj Prensipal - Portal for Wikipedia pages in Kreyòl.
• Marylin Mason: Creole Links Page
• Vedrine Creole Project - List of essays, articles, and other resources - all in Creole.

Haitian Government

• General Information:
  • Governments on the World Wide Web - Haiti A page of vital links.
  • Konstitisyon Repiblik d Ayiti 1987 -- an kreyòl - 1887 version of the Haitian constitution (Haitian Creole text)
    • Georgetown University -Political Database of the Americas: Republic of Haiti Constitutions - (French and English text)

• Embassies and Consulates:
  • Consulates:
    • Consulat Général d'Haïti à Montréal - Haitian consulate general in Montreal, Canada.
    • Haitian Consulate of New York
  • Embassies:
    • Embassy of the Republic of Haiti in Washington D.C – Search the Documentation section for Haitian political documents and texts of old speeches.

• Banque de République de Haïti - Haitian National Bank.

History, General

• Augusta Elmwood's Saint-Domingue page – Excellent collection of bibliographical and geneological resouces.
• Bob Corbett's Haiti Page – A top-notch collection of resources on Haiti. See especially links to the Haiti Mailing List and Corbett’s essays on the revolutionary period.
• Haiti - A Country Study - A book on Haiti from the Library of Congress. Includes history. Mirrored here.
• Haiti almanac info from World Statesmen - Includes flags, lists of governors, prime ministers, etc.
• The Haitian Revolution - University of Albany pathfinder site full of links and resources.
• Historical Chronology of Haiti - from the Combined Arms Research Library.
• The History of the Republic of Haiti, Hartford Web Publishing - HWP has a huge collection of historical documents in its online archives, including these about Haiti.
• Poles in Haiti - Web site recounting the fate of the Polish soldiers sent by Napoléon Bonaparte, many of which sided with the Haitian revolutionaries.
• Rulers.org - a complete list of Haiti's rulers from 1691 to the present.
• Center for History and New Media (George Mason U.) and American Social History Project (City U. of New York):
  Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution - over 600 documents relating to the French Revolution.
• Haiti - SourceWatch - Wiki webpages by the Center for Media & Democracy, dedicated to "produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda".

Haiti and the U.S.A.

• Haiti & the USA - Linked by History and Community – Haitian history, with special focus on Haiti's intersections with the US. This website is run by Dr. Bob Maguire of the Trinity College Haiti Program.
• Into Occupation and Administration of Haiti and The Dominican Republic - 1922 Senate report on the U.S. occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
• Quasi War documents at the Avalon Project - American historical documents relating to the Quasi-War with France, including the 1799 proclamation regarding U.S. trade with St. Domingo.

History, Revolutionary

• Glossary of the French Revolution at Wikipedia.
• Haitian American Historical Society - primary movers behind the proposed Savannah monument to Haitians in the American Revolution.
• John Garrigus Homepage – Garrigus is a professor and author. His site includes translations of primary texts and PDFs of some of Garrigus's publications.
• The Toussaint Table - at Chicken Bones has a collection of links to essays and articles on Haiti.
• University of Albany Haitian Revolution pathfinder - English-language sources of "frequently mentioned texts, encyclopedias, bibliographies, biographical sources, indexes and abstracts, and links to Web resources."

International Community and Haiti

• COHA - Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Periodically publishes articles on Haiti
• MICIVIH - OAS/UN International Mission in Haiti
• OAS's Situation In Haiti - Documents, speeches, and press releases from the Organization of American States
• Embassy - Haiti - See the link at the bottom of the page on International Policy towards Haiti.

Maps

• See the Haiti Maps page

Miscellaneous

• Gays and lesbians in Haiti - Webpage dealing with aspects of being a homosexual within Haitian society.
• Weather in Port-au-Prince - Includes five day forecast.

Missions, Foundations and Human Rights Organizations

Missions

• Haitian American Ministries - works with organizations and individuals in various cities within the United States and the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti.

Foundations

• EDEM Foundation - Provides access to opportunities for the children of Haiti through sustainable education, agriculture, farming and community development.
• Haitian American Foundation - serving Haitian Americans in South Florida.
• Healing Hands for Haiti - Volunteer organization to bring rehabilitative medicine to Haitians. Also operates a guest house.
• Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti – provides legal and other support for democracy and human rights issues.
• Project Teach Haiti – provides training for Haitian teachers and administrators.
• Sant La - a Haitian Neighborhood Center serving the Haitian-American community of South Florida.

Human Rights Organizations

• Dwa Fanm ("Women's Rights in Kreyòl) - A women's advocacy organization

Online Books

• Haiti A Slave Revolution - Collection of essays and excerpts reviewing Haiti's history and political situation to 2004. Most of the content is available Online (also available in print: ISBN ISBN 097475210X ).
• Papa Toussaint, historical novel by C. Richard Gillespie. (also available in print: ISBN 1583481249 ).
• Reflections on the Life and Times of Toussaint L'Overture... - Online edition of a book by David Augustus Straker (1886. Columbia, SC: Charles A. Calvo Jr.)

Online Groups and Mailing Lists

• Bob Corbett's Mailing List on Haiti - a moderated list with articles, current events, and discussion.
• Kreyol Yahoo!Group

Politics

Note that The Louverture Project does not endorse any of these sites or their views. The links are provided solely as a reference.

• Political organizations:
  • Hayti.net website of political party La Fanmi Lavalas. (Englisch, French and Creole)
• Activist Organizations:
  • HaitiAction.net - Website of the Haiti Action Committee.
  • Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network - HLLN, promoting the civil, human and cultural rights of Haitians living at home and abroad.
  • Haiti Reborn - Political action site.
• Haiti Democracy Project - US organization which advocates for "more effecive U.S. policy toward Haiti". Widely denounced as anti-Haitian right wing group.
• Haiti Support Group - Very accessible web site with links for travel, events, and more from this U.K. based group.
• Institute for Research in the Science of Politics - Interesting site. Self-professed Haiti-focused interest group, contains news analysis, essays, and poetry (!).
• Organization of American States' Dec. 17 report - OAS report of the Commission of Inquiry into the events of December 17, 2001 in Haiti.

Periodicals, Magazines, Newspapers and Broadcast Media

Newspapers

• Boston Haitian Reporter - a monthly English language newspaper "with an editorial emphasis on the Haitian-American experience in Greater Boston and the United States."
• Haïti Progrès - weekly newspaper offering coverage of Haiti from a left perspective. Mostly French and Haitian Creole pages, some English content.
• Haïti en Marche - Florida based French language Haitian newspaper with a left of center perspective.
• Haitian Times - weekly full-color conservative newspaper (New York based) offering English coverage of Haiti and Haitian Americans.
• Miami Herald Haiti News Page - Aggregated page of Haiti news, including on-the-scene reports from Michael A.W. Ottey and a special report on the Bicentennial.

Radio Stations and Programs

• Haiti Show - Streaming live over the airwaves and the internet from non-commercial Pacifica Radio station KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston, Texas.
• Lakou New York - Haitian left of center Radio station broadcasting in Haitian Creole from Brooklyn, NY.
• Radio Soleil d'Haïti - 24 hour Haitian radio station with a left of center perspective, broadcasting from Brooklyn, NY.

Internet based News about Haiti

• Caribbean Net News - Haiti news from Caribbean Net News based in the Cayman Islands. Articles often from Agence France Presse.
• Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Haiti - "Backpack journalist" Kevin Sites' documentary feature series on Haiti.

Stores

• Haiti Books sells books, CDs, videos, and art.

Travel and Tours

• Haiti Travel Guide - from Wikitravel.
• Haiti Travels provides an impressive range of services to the first-time traveler. They also have ambitious plans for a historical park.
• Traveling Haiti – Plan a trip to Haiti and pick up a little Haitian Kreyol.

Vodou

• Vodoun Culture - Information about many aspects of Haitian culture related to Vodou, as well as information about Haiti's major religion itself.
• La Médiathèque Caraïbe: Vodou music in Haiti - Information and background on Haitian Vodou music by Dr. Lois Wilcken, the Executive Director of La Troupe Mackandal.