Protect and Swerve has already won Haque and Lee a “10 Under 20” award, which are presented to students who develop creative and civic-minded tech projects during CE Week, a consumer electronics and technology event in New York City. How we started: Protect & Swerve was a small project started at a 24 hour hackathon, […]
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Haitian man shares his Ancestry DNA Results
World Map Of Haiti –Historia con Mapas The Taíno people were the indigenous people of the Caribbean and Florida. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of Cuba, Trinidad , Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico. In the Greater Antilles, the […]
Read MoreEmpress ‘Adélina Lévêque Soulouque’ of Haiti
Adélina Soulouque (b. c. 1795-after 1859), née Lévêque, was Empress Consort of Haiti from 1849 until 1859, as wife of Faustin I of Haiti. Adélina was the daughter of Marie Michel Lévêque, a Haitian of mixed-race heritage. She had a long-term relationship with Faustin Souloque for many years. It was only in December 1849 that […]
Read MoreRecommended Book To Read: From Columbus to Castro The History of the Caribbean
Unknown, Forgotten or Accidentally left out of your history books by mistake. This book is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands — Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, […]
Read MoreTaina Warrior Chief of Xaragua: Anacaona from Hispaniola/Haiti
Anacaona was born in Yaguana (today the town of Léogane, Haiti) in 1474. During Christopher Columbus‘s visit to the chiefdom of Xaragua in what is now southwest Haiti in late 1496, where Anacaona and her brother Bohechío appeared as equal negotiators. She fought the Spaniards who was trying to colonize Hispaniola at the time. Anacaona […]
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