Haiti’s cataclysmic 7.0 earthquake is, unfortunately, just the latest in a long line of tragedies to befall the country since its Spanish and then French colonization, portending centuries of slavery ...

A different angle on news from Haiti: Alan Lomax's early recordings collected in beautiful new box set, produced locally [New Alan Lomax Box Set…] ...

MIAMI (AP) — At 21, Alan Lomax went to Haiti and recorded its citizens making music — songs about Voodoo, carnival politics, children's games and the first airplanes crisscrossing its Caribbean skies ...

NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents From Chisholm Trail to Harvard Yard -- Road scholars -- The saga of Lead Belly -- Travels with Zora Neale Hurston and ...