Tag: Haitian

Overview: Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele warned Haitian gangs Wednesday that a stronger military response could follow if four Salvadoran soldiers missing since an Oct. 18 ambush in La Plaine-du-Cul-de-Sac are…

Overview: At the fourth Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival in Harlem, screenings and discussions explored how deportation, colorism and racial prejudice shape life on Hispaniola and…

Overview: Two Haitian Times collaborators were among five winners of the ninth edition of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie’s Young Journalist Award in Haiti. Freelancer Daniella Saint-Louis won first…

Overview: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leading figure in the Haitian Revolution and Haiti’s first head of state after independence, was assassinated in Port-au-Prince near Pont-Rouge on Oct. 17, 1806. After helping…

Overview: Several Haitian political figures named in a U.N. Panel of Experts report have rejected allegations of links to gangs, criminal financing or illicit economic networks and challenged investigators to…

Overview: Shermilla, an 18-year-old Haitian immigrant living in Brooklyn, arrived in the United States legally in 2023. She excelled in high school, worked part-time, and sent money to relatives in…

Overview: President Donald Trump renewed attacks on Haitian and Somali immigrants during an Ohio campaign rally Monday, repeating false claims about Haitians eating pets in Springfield and celebrating immigration policies…

Overview: About 12,000 people gathered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Oct. 3 and 4 for CultureCon 2026, a festival celebrating Black creativity under the theme “Museum of Us.” The…