Category: Haitian History

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“Kwame Kwei-Armah To Adapt Haitian Revolution Story For TV With Foz Allan’s Bryncoed”

“Kwame Kwei-Armah To Adapt Haitian Revolution Story For TV With Foz Allan’s Bryncoed” by Peter White – Nov. 25, 2018 (Deadline)

“EXCLUSIVE: Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of London’s Young Vic, is to adapt the story of the Haitian Revolution after Bryncoed Productions optioned C L R James’ The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.”

Kwei-Armah, a playwright, director and actor, who has appeared in shows such as BBC’s Casualty and Skins and voiced Mtambo in The Lorax, is to adapt the book into a ten-part television series.

The book, which was written in 1938 by the Afro-Trinidadian historian, charts the history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804. The series will start with the first slave revolt of 1791 and end with the Haitian declaration of independence in 1804, will explore the nature of leadership, its compromises, its glories and the range of personal cost it claims” 

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Indigenous Inca, Taíno, Maya & Nahua Legacies Featured in Gallery Talks

Indigenous Inca, Taíno, Maya & Nahua Legacies Featured in Gallery Talk, by Benny Seda-Galarza – August 28, 2018.

“This fall, the Library of Congress will present a series of four gallery talks in the exhibit “Exploring the Early Americas.” The talks will focus on the everyday lives of the indigenous people of the ancient Americas and the newly developing connection between archaeology and neuroscience.

Starting in September, lectures will be held monthly through December on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. in the gallery of the exhibition on the second floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E. The talks are free and open to the public. The series will be presented by John Hessler, curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of Archaeology of the Early Americas.”