One of the victims of the Titanic, Joseph Lemercier Laroche was a haitian engineer who was on this ship! and died on the RMS Titanic on April 15th, 1912. His family survived. He was the nephew of one of the president of Haiti…
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Une des victimes de la tragédie du Titanic, Joseph Lemercier Laroche, était un ingénieur haïtien qui était à bord de ce bateau et qui y perdit la vie le 15 Avril 1912. Sa femme et ses enfants survécurent… Il était le neveu d’un des anciens président d’Haïti…
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Youn nan viktim trajedi Titanic la, Joseph Lemercier Laroche te yon enjenyè ayisyen ki te fè pati de moun sou bato sa a! Li te mouri 15 Avril 1912. Madanm li ak pitit li te suviv. Tonton li se te youn nan ansyen prezidan peyi Ayiti…
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Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s next project will center on the legendary writer, essayist and novelist James Baldwin. During this phase of Mr. Peck’s career, the filmmaker seems to be preoccupied with exploring the lives of the world’s intellectuals. His last film was Young Karl Marx, based on the German writer’s friendship with Friedrich Engels during an eight-year period.

Here’s what we know so far about the James Baldwin documentary.

1. It will cover a specific period in James Baldwin’s life.
Like Young Karl Marx that centers on a decade and the correspondence that figure had with the fellow philosopher, the James Baldwin documentary will cover the last years of the writer’s career.

2. The documentary will be marketed with an alias.
Peck’s project is entitled I Am Not Your Negro. It will be marketed in the USA under that name, but with an alternative title Remember This House. This is a reference to the title of the essay collection that Baldwin begun to work on about the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

3. The documentary has already set the film festival world abuzz.
The Toronto International Film Festival will debut I Am Not Your Negro on the festival circuit, and a month later, it will be screened at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. Peck will serve as a keynote speaker at the conference, (which will also feature Jonathan Demme (who directed The Agronomist, a doc about Haitian journalist Jean-Leopold Dominique).

4. The documentary is produced by Peck’s very own production company.
Most of Peck’s films are co-productions, usually with French and/or German. The Baldwin doc was solely produced by Peck’s very own production company Velvet Film, and is written and produced by him as well.

Above: a scene from I Am Not Your Negro.

5. Peck is a huge fan of James Baldwin and his work.
He’s told the media that he read the scribe’s work as a teenager. Among Peck’s body of work is a film Lumumba, based on the life of Patrice Lumumba, a leader of Zaire (now Congo). This work won Peck a great many awards and acclaim, and his attachment to the Lumumba’s story is not unlike the one he professes to feel for Baldwin’s legacy. Peck reportedly has the blessings of Baldwin’s estate for I Will Not Be Your Negro, a relief considering so many biopics and docs don’t usually get the full approval of the subject’s surviving family members.

The world awaits this documentary, and like a great many of the Haitian filmmaker’s past projects, there’s nothing but high hopes in the international film community. Mr. Peck, who was honored last year in London with a special retrospective of his career, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and grew up in the Congo and Germany.

Everything But A Man stars award-winning actors Jimmy Jean-Louis and Gessica Geneus and veteran actress Monica Calhoun. The film debuted at the American Black Film Festival in Miami this past summer, and received a whopping six nominations. But here’s some other facts you need to know about it and its cast!

1. The film was directed and written by Oakland-born writer-director Nnegest Likké.
Likké, who spent some of her early years traveling Europe and Africa, is known for films that explore cultural differences. Everything But A Man centers on a black couple who have cultural differences. This is a theme in another Nnegest Likké film entitled Ben and Ara.

2. This is the second teaming of Louis and Likké.
This isn’t the first time Jimmy Jean-Louis and Likké are collaborating. Likké previously worked with Louis for Phat Girlz, a Fox Searchlight film released in the mid-2000s that grossed $7 million in the USA alone. In an interview with Black Hollywood Renaissance, the director stated that she thought that she’d get more offers from Hollywood after her film’s success, but had to get financing from African sources.

3…And the fourth pairing of Jimmy Jean-Louis and Gessica Geneus
According to IMDB Everything But A Man marks the fourth time that Jimmy Jean-Louis and actress Gessica Geneus have co-starred together in a feature film. The thespians previously appeared in the French TV movie Toussaint Louverture, and two Haitian Creole-language feature films Cousines and Le President a-t-il Le Sida, both released in the mid-2000s. Jean-Louis and Geneus will be on the talent roster for the Kareem Mortimer film Cargo.

4. Everything But A Man marks the eight time that Jimmy Jean-Louis has starred and produced or co-produced a production.
He keeps it low-key, but in addition to being a big man in front of the camera, Jimmy Jean-Louis has gotten more than a passing taste at producing. Other past production credits include the feature film Life Outside of Pearl, and the documentary Jimmy Goes to Nollywood. Prior to Everything But A Man, the “Hero” actor’s previous production credit was for the film The Empty Box (Spanish title: La caja vacía), directed by Claudia Saint-Luce.

5. They started as teenagers.
Did you know that co-stars Monica Calhoun and Gessica Geneus have been acting since they were teenagers? IMBD indicates that Monica had her first role as an actress when she was just fourteen, and Gessica Geneus has been acting since the age of seventeen.

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1.Despite humiliation and pressure from foreign authorities, especially the United States and Germany, Haiti remained calm during his reign.

2.During his governance new railways were constructed to connect major towns to the Haitian capital.

3.In 1900, Simon Sam’s government signed a treaty with France for reciprocity. In 1902 the US also signed a treaty with Haiti on naturalization.

4.His cousin, Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, was also a President of Haiti for only five months in 1915.

5.There were reports that Victoire Jean-Baptiste, his mistress, had much influence on his leadership.
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The intention behind the Ogé Revolt was to force the french colonists to allow voting rights for free men of colors. Those involved with Ogé, such as Jean-Baptiste Chavannes were of wealthy families. It is important to mention that their intention were not to free the slaves, people such as Etienne Dejoly, Julien Raimond owned slaves in the French colony and had no desire to weaken slavery system. .
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Jean Bertrand Aristide’s first term only lasted 7 months (1991) due to a « coup d’état » led by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras. As a results, the Brigadier General overthrows the government.
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