A 15-year-old boy from Haiti was shot and killed in front of his sister by a hooded gunman on Friday…
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Book truck brings English and French-language books to Flatbush’s Little Haiti
“We are always looking for opportunities to bring books into communities that aren’t necessarily well-served by bookstores, he said. “We just want to open it up to everyone and part of that means bringing collections of books that are multilingual into our multilingual neighborhoods.”
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Effort to Designate Parts of Brooklyn as “Little Haiti” Is Called Divisive and Misguided
In the early 1990s, Una S. Clarke was a councilwoman representing the 40th district in Brooklyn who said that “Haitians were the Hasidics of the Caribbean community,” while addressing a meeting of a group of Haitian-American professionals in Manhattan.
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Brooklyn Official Calls for Designation of “Little Haiti” In Flatbush
An effort to name parts of the Flatbush section of Brooklyn “Little Haiti” plunged into controversy last week when a local political operative blasted the idea as divisive and misguided.