After a weekend of festivities surrounding Haitian Flag Day, the Toussaint L’Ouverture Cultural Center of Massachusetts will open to the public on May 20. In this story that first aired a year ago at the time of the groundbreaking for the facility, Esteban Bustillos of GBH in Boston looks back on the legacy of the center’s namesake, one of the major leaders of the Haitian Revolution.

This story originally aired on May 20, 2024.