Two centuries before Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated, Jean-Jacques Dessalines was slain by political rivals after helping to lead an anti-slavery revolution.

Dessalines successfully unified the Black population to create the armée indigène or indigenous army, who changed their motto from “Liberty or Death!” to “Independence or Death!” ...

Dessalines later called the same friend back, and said a strange man forced her into a car, but that she'd managed to escape. Before that call was cut short, the friend heard a car door slam shut ...

In 2018 City Council voted to name a street in Brooklyn after former Haitian emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Gregory P. Mango. Williams branded him “the biggest genocidal murderer the globe has ...

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s founding father. Book of Paintings, by Renée Stout, CC BY-NC-ND. Just after declaring independence, in early 1804, Dessalines discovered that local French ...

That legal commitment remains through Dessalines’ death in the shooting. Arrest paperwork says Butler was shot in the leg and was in Broward Health Medical Center until at least Jan. 13.

Wilkins Dessalines, 33, was arrested on second-degree murder charges after the shooting Tuesday night. To stream FCN on your phone, you need the FCN app. Download the FCN app. More Videos.

ON JAN. 1, 1804, the victorious Gen. Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti’s independence. As he did so, he called upon his countrymen to avenge their slaughtered dead by destroying the ...

Post-independence, the country’s first leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, declared himself emperor for life. Like four subsequent leaders, he was assassinated.

It’s the roots," Alico Dessalines, band leader. After a set of Rara, Matt Jenson of the well-known Combo Sabrosa Latin band, will be back as DJ Cklockwize, ...

BROCKTON – The first Brockton vs. Boston Basketball Classic will be held today in honor of the late Israel Dessalines. A 2002 graduate of Stoughton High School who played basketball in the ...

Dessalines was arrested for second-degree murder. The report continued to describe that Rickard came home around 10 p.m. and went to his porch to smoke tobacco like he usually does.