WThree US Haitian and pro-democracy radio journalists were assassinated in Little Haiti, Miami, Florida, United States between 1991 and 1993.
WMaggy de Coster is an award-winning Haitian-born writer living in France. Until 1987, she wrote under her birth name Margareth Lizaire and is also known as Margareth Lizaire de Coster.
WOswald Durand was a Haitian poet and politician, said to be "to Haiti what Shakespeare is to England, and Dante to Italy." He was also a Haitian writer and poet of French and Creole expression, considered as the national poet of Haiti. Besides he was also judged as a Romantic poet and the most prolific one in the nineteen centuries. These 20th-century successors such as René Depestre, and Jacques Roumain congratulated Oswald Durand for his authentic expressions and honored him as a forerunner of Haitian indigenism. He was born in the northern part of Haiti, in the city of Saint-Louis du Nord. In 1842, both his parents died in the earthquake that devastated the city of Cape Haitian. Oswald Durand, and her sister, were welcomed in their maternal grandmother who raised them. He spent most of his childhood outside the city where he was born. Because of political instabilities in Haiti, he was forced to leave school and to educate himself without having recourse to a teacher.
WJoseph Auguste Anténor Firmin, better known as simply Anténor Firmin, was a Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and politician. Firmin is best known for his book De l'égalité des races humaines, which was published as a rebuttal to French writer Count Arthur de Gobineau's work Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines. Gobineau's book asserted the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of Blacks and other people of color.
WLouis-Joseph Janvier was a Haitian journalist, diplomat and novelist.
WAdy Jean-Gardy born in Haiti, is a reformist and international press activist. He became Minister of Communication in Haiti (2012–13), after a brilliant experience as Chief of Staff of the Haitian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He deeply designed reforms for public communication without propaganda, respecting the human rights organizations and positioned Haiti as a powerful member of the African Union at Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). He worked to end civil wars in Africa and promoted a new image of Haiti as an International leader for peace. Ady Jean Gardy is also the founder of the Haitian Press Federation, an umbrella organization for various Haitian press associations. He founded the Haitian University of Journalism and Social Communication or the Haitian Center for Teaching Journalists.
WBrignol Lindor, was a Haitian radio journalist and news editor, lawyer and teacher. Lindor was a prominent voice in politics, speaking mostly on behalf of the Democratic interests of the Haitian people. His brutal murder was blamed on threats from leftist politicians who supported President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
WEmmelie Prophète is a Haitian writer and diplomat.
WJacques Roumain was a Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. The African-American poet, Langston Hughes, translated some of Roumain's works, including Gouverneurs de la Rosée.
WEmile Saint-Lot, also Emile Saint-Lôt was a Haitian politician, lawyer, and journalist.
WPhilippe Thoby-Marcelin (1904–1975), was a Haitian poet, novelist, journalist, folklorist and politician.
WGary Victor is a Haitian writer, playwright, and scriptwriter for television and radio. His radio sketches and the uncompromising tone of his television series on the manners of the Haitian bourgeoisie provoked controversy and discussion. He also served as the General Secretary of the Senate of Haiti from 1996 to 2000.