Every once in a while, you encounter a person who seems to have been born under an urgent, righteous star–a person who is both a fiery activist lit with the passion of his convictions and a dramatic ...

Liliane Pierre-Paul, a famed Haitian radio journalist and outspoken champion of press freedom and democracy, has died. She was 70. Pierre-Paul was at home in the hills above Port-au-Prince preparing ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Armed men set fire overnight to a building in Haiti's capital that had long served as headquarters for the nation's oldest radio station, as an alliance of gangs continues ...

New Orleans-based musician Leyla McCalla will mark Haitian-American Heritage Month in May with the release of a new album influenced by her research into Radio Haiti-Inter. The album "Breaking the ...

Leyla McCalla relishes the process of doing research. The Haitian-American songwriter, who lives in New Orleans, regularly draws inspiration from the things she reads, and she has explored Haitian ...

Award-winning Haitian broadcaster Michèle Montas follows the chaos in her home country every day from her apartment in New York. She has a simple answer to why peace remains elusive and violence is ...

Editor's Note: To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month this year, World Cafe is going on a musical tour of Latin America. Every weekday from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we'll spotlight the music of a ...

Every once in a while, you encounter a person who seems to have been born under an urgent, righteous star — a person who is both a fiery activist lit with the passion of his convictions and a dramatic ...

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Michhle Montas, news director of Port-au-Prince based Radio Haoti-Inter. Montas talks about her decision to take Radio Haiti-Inter off the air last Saturday, in response ...