In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post-civil war reconstruction and early jazz. The term “brassroots democracy” ...

Arts resources of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now includes the school’s first building designed for the study ...

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What follows is a wild heist as Doc and Zoe, who were first introduced to audiences in the 2017 film “Kafou” by the same ...

Crescent City resident Leslie Pariseau finds a complex but resilient community where no idea is too far-fetched.

and moved to New Orleans as a free woman after the Haitian Revolution. The original school was connected to the church, but free people of color and their Creole descendants administered it until ...

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As a notable contender in the music streaming landscape alongside Spotify and Apple Music, Amazon Music boasts an impressive library of over 100 million songs, complemented by a diverse array of ...

I have a lot in my chest," Joseph said in Creole through an interpreter. "My wife and I can't even sleep because we're so worried. We're law-abiding citizens — all we did is to be Haitian.

Dédé was a New Orleans-born free creole of color ... a free man to parents from St. Domingue Haiti and would later have the opportunity to learn music composition in Paris, France.