Book Review: ‘Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games’
In this book, historian Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall explores how the 1804 Haitian Revolution has been misrepresented and censored on screen.
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What’s Next for the Haitian Liberation Movement After the Moïse Assassination?
Social movements in Haiti sought for months to remove assassinated President Jovenel Moïse. It was broadly considered the task of the people.
Destabilizing Haiti: Why It Keeps Happening
Having a military presence on the island, or at least leverage with whatever regime emerges, can help to sustain political pressure on other countries nearby, while providing a base to step in as part of any regional military operation deemed necessary in the future.
Book Review: ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture’
"Black Spartacus" is a rigorous history of Louverture’s undying spirit and prodigious work for the Haitian people's emancipation.
From Palestine to Colombia: The End of the White World Colonial-Capitalist Project?
The colonial-capitalist West is prepared to sacrifice everything and everyone in order to maintain its global dominance, even if it means destroying the planet and everyone on it.
TF Board Thanks Outgoing Staff, Welcomes New Editor
Dear Toward Freedom readers:
This week, Toward Freedom’s Board of Directors bids farewell to guest editor Charlotte Dennett, welcomes Toward Freedom’s new editor, Julie Varughese, and extends a heartfelt thanks to Sam Mayfield who stepped down as President of Toward Freedom’s Board of Directors in December, 2020.
Charlotte Dennett stepped in as Toward Freedom’s guest editor last October. Her decades-long experience as a scholar, author and activist allowed Charlotte to seamlessly step into the position serving Toward Freedom’s mission, “to publish international reporting and incisive analysis that exposes government and corporate abuses of power, while supporting movements for universal peace, justice, freedom, the environment, and human rights.”