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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onApril 26, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: A reader researching famous ties gets a few pointers for finding Haitian roots.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 8, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: Help is needed to find the family link to a 19th-century head of state.
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by Joel Dreyfuss onJanuary 10, 2012
Little progress and a lot of self-doubt remain in the first black republic after the earthquake.
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by Joel Dreyfuss onJanuary 18, 2011
By returning to Haiti, Baby Doc Duvalier is betting on the fact that most Haitians are too young to remember the climate of fear that ruled their nation for 30 years.
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