Haiti’s ‘bwa kale’ a new window for international help | Opinion
In November 2021, I was a guest on MSNBC with Jose Diaz-Balart giving his viewers an update on the situation in Haiti. It had been four months since the assassination of president Jovenel Moïse. The interim administration, to the shock of no one, was struggling to get a handle on the gangs that were wreaking…
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Believe the hype behind Banboch Kreyol, Haitian music’s appeal | Opinion
As we continue our acculturation and political ascendency as a community, we Haitians need to broaden our reach.
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Caring for aging parents an honor, yet tough reality | Opinion
The phrase “it takes a village to raise a child” is an old African proverb that conveys the idea that it takes many people to create a safe and healthy environment. It was brought to many Americans’ consciousness when then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton penned a book by that…
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Turning Haiti into a ‘zombie’ republic | Opinion
Covering crime in New York in the early 1990s took me to every cranny of the Big Apple. Once, I was in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn interviewing the family of a man who had been shot dead.
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Garry Pierre-Pierre is a Pulitzer-prize winning, multimedia and entrepreneurial journalist. In 1999, he left the New York Times to launch the Haitian Times, a New York-based English-language publication serving the Haitian Diaspora. He is also the co-founder of the City University Graduate School of Journalism‘s Center for Community and Ethnic Media and a senior producer at CUNY TV.
