List of Websites

Lists of Haiti and Saint-Domingue-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.

Visual Arts

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.
• FOSAJ - Fanal Otantik Sant D'A Jakmel - Art center in Jacmel hosting artists studios, performance space, workshops, cultural events, and visiting artist residencies.
• 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
• Kesler Pierre's photo galleries - Images from Haiti.

Authors

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

Culture: Dance, Food, Music and More

• Mapou Productions - Promoting Haitian culture throughout the world.

Food and Drinks

Haitian Food

• Haitian Recipes and Cooking Tips - Info on everythinghaitian.com

Drinks

Haitian Rum

• Rhum Barbancourt - Website of the world-renown rum distillery.
  • Rum review: Rhum Barbancourt Réserve Spéciale 8 Years - From refinedvices.com.
• Haitian Rhums and Clairin - Information from therumelier.com.

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.
• Photographs 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.
• 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.

• Haitian American Historical Society - Leads a project to honor those Haitians who fought for U.S. Independence at the Siege of Savannah in 1779.
• 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.
• Inquiry 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.)
• Histoire de l'expédition des Français à Saint-Domingue sous le consulat de Napoléon Bonaparte by Isaac Louverture and Antoine Métral. (1825). Paris: Fanjat Ainé. Available online (Google Books). (French text)

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.
• Travel 2 Haiti - Gives basic information on Haitian towns and tourist destinations.

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.