Nèg Mawon Podcast

Episode 4/11 of Tout Moun, a Deep Dive series on the people who made the Haitian Revolution. From 1788 to 1791, revolution in Paris shook the colony. The planters grabbed for power, the free people of color demanded equal rights and saw Vincent Ogé and Jean-Baptiste Chavannes broken on the wheel, and Saint-Domingue split into warring camps. Through all of it, the enslaved people who appeared in no...

Epizòd 6/11, an Kreyòl. Nou kontinye ak rapò "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026" la, IJDH ak BAI. Avètisman: epizòd sa a pale de vyolans seksyèl. Rapò a konte plis pase 7,000 ka vyolans ki baze sou sèks nan uit mwa, li montre kijan gwoup ame yo sèvi ak kadejak kòm zam, epi li swiv fanm ak tifi ki deplase nan kan yo. Nou mete devan ògan...

Epizòd 5/11, an Kreyòl. Nou kontinye ak rapò "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026" la, IJDH ak BAI. Se 2 sou 15 tribinal depè nan Pòtoprens ki fonksyone, tribinal premye enstans lan pa t fè okenn jijman ak jiri pandan uit an, epi dosye Jovenel Moïse, Monferrier Dorval, Antoinette Duclair ak Diego Charles yo pa bouje. Nan prizon yo, 82% m...

Epizòd 4/11, an Kreyòl. Nou kontinye ak rapò "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026" la, IJDH ak BAI. Fwa sa a rapò a vire je l sou Leta li menm. Direktè inite kont koripsyon an revoke apre li fin pale devan Konsèy Sekirite Nasyonzini, polis ak otorite ap travay men nan men ak gwoup ame, epi operasyon polis ak atak dron touye sivil, timoun...

Epizòd 3/11, an Kreyòl. Nou kontinye ak rapò "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026" la, IJDH ak BAI. Kidnapin tounen yon zam: yo pran moun an otaj pa dizèn ak pa santèn pou fè presyon sou Leta. Rapò a montre yon lapolis ki gen mwens pase 1,000 polisye ki pare pou konba, plan sekirite Kenscoff la ki te defèt anvan masak out la, konpayi pri...

Episode 3/11 of Tout Moun, a Deep Dive series on the people who made the Haitian Revolution. Resistance never waited for 1791. We follow it on the slave ships, through refusal and marronage, in the maroon communities of the mountains, in the Vodou gatherings, and in the conspiracy of François Makandal and the poison panic. At the center is a court record from 1757, the interrogation of an enslaved...

Epizòd 2/11, an Kreyòl. Nou kontinye ak rapò "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026" la, IJDH ak BAI. Rapò a montre kijan gwoup ame yo soti nan kapital la pou y al nan zòn riral yo ak sa li rele atak zèklè: 70 moun touye nan Jean-Denis sèlman, ak 164 moun touye nan masak Kenscoff yo an jiyè ak out. Nou gade kijan gwoup yo gouvène zòn yo ko...

Epizòd 1/11, an Kreyòl. Seri sa a pase tout rapò "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026" la an revi, rapò Enstiti pou Jistis ak Demokrasi ann Ayiti (IJDH) ak Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) pibliye nan mwa oktòb 2026. Nou kòmanse ak gwo tablo a: plis pase 3,300 moun mouri ant janvye ak jiyè 2026, prèske 1.5 milyon moun deplase, ak...

Episode 11/11, the series finale of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. The report judges the international response: a Gang Suppression Force at a fraction of its size, abuses by foreign troops that went unpunished, U.S. weapons still flowing in, sanctions left unenforced, and humanitarian aid less t...

Episode 2/11 of Tout Moun, a Deep Dive series on the people who made the Haitian Revolution. We go inside Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Revolution, the richest colony in the world, built on sugar, coffee and the slave trade. We look at the castes that divided it, the terror that held it together, and the case of Nicolas Le Jeune. And we follow the lives that half a million captive people made i...

Episode 10/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Nearly 200,000 Haitians were sent back between January and August 2026, most from the Dominican Republic, and the United States ended TPS for more than 350,000 Haitians on 6 August. We follow the report on what happens to returnees, from abuse durin...

Episode 9/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Only about one in ten health facilities with beds is fully working, both public psychiatric hospitals have been dysfunctional since 2024, and cholera, brought by UN peacekeepers in 2010, is still here. Meanwhile 1,700 schools are closed and 500 destr...

Episode 8/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Eight straight years of economic decline, inflation at 17%, remittances threatened by the end of TPS, and armed groups taxing every road. About 4.6 million people lack safe water and 5.8 million face acute hunger. The report traces these crises to fo...

Episode 7/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. The report calls Haiti one of the most dangerous countries in the world for children, who are recruited by armed groups and killed by drones and "defense" groups. We also follow what the crisis means for older people, people with disabilities, LGBTQI...

Episode 1/11 of Tout Moun, a Deep Dive series on the people who made the Haitian Revolution. For two centuries the Revolution was told through its great men, while the enslaved men and women who made it left almost no writing of their own. We trace how the story has been written, from the first foreign accounts to Madiou, Ardouin, Sannon and C. L. R. James, and how the people can still be found in...

Episode 6/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Content note: this episode discusses sexual violence. The report counts more than 7,000 cases of gender-based violence in eight months, documents armed groups using rape as a weapon, and follows displaced women and girls in the camps. We bring forwar...

In 1816 Simón Bolívar arrived in Haiti broke and defeated. Alexandre Pétion gave him money, arms, a printing press and Haitian volunteers, and asked for one thing in return: the abolition of slavery in every territory Bolívar liberated. This Deep Dive follows Pétion from the child his father refused to name, to silversmith, artillery officer and president of the southern republic. We look at the l...

Episode 5/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Only 2 of the 15 peace courts in Port-au-Prince work, the Court of First Instance held no jury trials for eight years, and the cases of Jovenel Moïse, Monferrier Dorval, Antoinette Duclair and Diego Charles have not moved. In the prisons, 82% of deta...

Episode 4/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. This time the report turns to the state itself. The head of the anti-corruption unit is fired after briefing the UN Security Council, police and officials collude with armed groups, and police operations and drone strikes kill civilians, including ch...

Episode 3/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Kidnapping has become a weapon: hostages taken by the dozens and the hundreds as leverage against the state. The report shows a police force with fewer than 1,000 officers ready for combat, the security plan for Kenscoff taken apart before the August...

Episode 2/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. The report documents armed groups moving out of the capital and into the countryside in what it calls lightning raids: 70 people killed in Jean-Denis alone, and 164 killed in the Kenscoff massacres of July and August. We look at how armed groups gove...

Episode 1/11. This series walks through the whole of "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", the October 2026 report by the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and its Haiti-based sister organization, the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI). We begin with the report's big picture: more than 3,300 people killed from Jan...

Two lifelong friends and Haiti's leading class analysts sit down together for the first time on the show. Dr. Alex Dupuy and Dr. Robert Fatton argue that Haiti's ruling class chose to rebuild the plantation and to pay the 1825 indemnity, and was no mere victim of it. They explain why that matters for reparations, and test Jean Casimir's "counter-plantation" against the 20th century. They also make...

Dr. Chris Bongie, translator of Vastey's The Colonial System Unveiled, explains why Vastey can't be separated from the power he served. He looks at Vastey as Christophe's scribe and how Césaire and Walcott saw themselves in him. He covers what the archives reveal about Haiti after 1804, and how to read the violence of 1804 through Jean Fouchard. He shows how Vastey answered the question "who are w...

Born in Grenada, a youth at the Battle of Savannah, the general who set Cap-Français on fire as Leclerc arrived, then King of the North. Dr. Marlene Daut talks about her biography of Henry Christophe. She covers what is known and what is guessed about his origins, his friendship and break with Capois-La-Mort, and the French plot to set him against Pétion. She also covers the free press and culture...