Vodou is Haiti’s ancestral spiritual tradition, developed by enslaved Africans and shaped by a mixture of African religions ...

Books in Haitian Creole will take center stage at the Little Haiti Book Festival. Haitian Creole is the national language of the Republic of Haiti, spoken by nearly the entire population of the island ...

Carline Smothers, a former teacher, wanted to help her three children learn about their heritage by learning Haitian-Creole. “I’m Haitian-American, and my husband is American,” Smothers said. When she ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Schuler Books & Music is using some new equipment to meet a unique need in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The business's new Espresso Book Machine allows print-on-demand publishing. Schuler ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Duolingo, the popular language-learning app, is adding Haitian ...

MIAMI -- The kindergartners hunched over their tiny desks, drawing and labeling their favorite characters from the fable "The Little Red Hen." Genevieve Henriquez, their teacher at Morningside ...

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, HaitiCROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — Teenagers in blue-and-white uniforms pour out of classrooms of this boarding school at the edge of Haiti’s capital, chattering in their native ...

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti – Teenagers in blue-and-white uniforms pour out of classrooms of this boarding school at the edge of Haiti's capital, chattering in their native language of Creole about the ...

Ginette Derelus is a cook at Manjay Restaurant at The Citadel near Little Haiti, Miami. Duolingo partnered with Haitian restaurants to promote the new language course. Derelus, a Haitian-Bahamian, ...

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, HaitiCROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — In a Feb. 6 story, The Associated Press portrayed the private Louverture Cleary School as emphasizing Haitian Creole. The school says it uses ...

"We have lost, we have wasted, so many Einsteins because of the language barrier," said Michel DeGraff, a leading Creole scholar and Haiti-born linguistics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of ...