In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. During a trip to Haiti a few years ago, I traveled off the beaten path and visited the southeastern port city of Jacmel ...

A week later Batista ignominiously fled to Dominican Republic exile ... Batista’s estate outside Havana—mansion, movie house, museum, library, $4,000 lamps. If these men have their way ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Over 500 people descended from dusty trucks on a recent morning and ...

As spiraling violence in Haiti puts healthcare out of reach for most, Haitian mothers are seeking care at hospitals in neighboring Dominican Republic despite government policies there scaling up ...

More flights will be taking off between South Florida and the Dominican Republic. Less than a month after tickets went on sale for inaugural non-stop flights between Miami International Airport ...

It's an unassuming, small museum in Germantown. Just two rooms packed with powerful artifacts that reflect the extremely painful history of slavery in America. This is the Lest We Forget Museum of ...

The Dominican Republic was for most of its history primarily an exporter of sugar, coffee, and tobacco, but over the last three decades the economy has become more diversified as the service ...

The Dominican Republic, under President Luis Abinader's order, is deporting Haitian immigrants at an alarming rate. Haitians ...

Cindy Rowan said she was a big ball of nerves as she stood by her son’s side as he was being transported back home by air ambulance to Edmonton from a hospital in the Dominican Republic on Sunday.

Over 500 people descended from dusty trucks on a recent morning and shuffled through a tiny gap in a border gate separating ...