With her perky smile and well-carved face, Michèle Jessica Fièvre might easily be taken for a model on the streets of Miami, but no, she...

Haitian-American filmmaker and screenwriter Patricia Benoit is the mind behind the drama Stones in the Sun, (Creole title Wòch Nan...

Haiti’s beauty queens have been many, Claudinette Fouchard, Gerthie David, Evelyne Miot, Marie-Edith Vaval, Sarodj Bertin and now Anedie...

Could publishing a magazine for Haitians living in the United States—with mass appeal to other Caribbeans in the middle of a ...

Like the early bird that catches the worm and is the envy of all the fowl in the forest, Fabienne Colas was the “It Girl” of the Haitian...

she walks on water, ripples oiling under her prance backstroking in a clear gulf she sprints along the bank shore or rather under it as...

As a teenager wanting to pursue professional modeling (and having done more than a half a dozen photo shoots), Vanessa Nina went to a...

Are you byen abiye? Are you a dandy type, the type who will not step outside your door, without giving yourself a multi-angle full-length...

The words Like mother’s milk drip into my mind’s mouth to comfort, to nurture. At first they are simple–even tasteless with a sweet...

Life started like a dream world for Sarodj Bertin, complete with admission at one of the most prestigious dance schools in Haiti, and all...

Sophia Désir is a woman who’s in a class all by herself. In the early 2000s, Désir became the first woman in Haiti in more than a decade...

In the 1960s, the 1970s, black models shined, and very, very few shined as lustrously as Jany Remponeau Tomba, who became one of the ...

(Poem to commemorate Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, 2 years later) 730 days and counting Our people are suffering They’ve suffered before- but...

Farah Larrieux’s hands are small, but the mind of the woman who the hands are on, isn’t. A native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Larrieux...

From Defend Haiti: Jessica Fievre (also known as M.J. Fievre) is the author of several mystery novels and children’s books in French. Her...

Konpa/hip hop artist Draka Hunt is as independent as most female MCs come. She finds inspiration in the raspy-voiced 1990s rapper MC...