In its 2008 carnival song Defile, the group RAM, paid homage to Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s chief liberator. “We celebrate Dessalines’…
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Meet Haiti’s founding father, whose black revolution was too radical for Thomas Jefferson
Crowds cheered as local lawmakers on August 18 unveiled a street sign showing that Rogers Avenue in the Flatbush section…
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PetroCaribe PetroCaribe: Twitter Campaign Highlights Corruption In Haiti A few hundred demonstrators participated in a sit-in in front of the…
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Haitian Community Gathers in East Flatbush for Jean-Jacques Dessalines Blvd. Unveiling
On Aug. 18, dozens of members of the Haitian community gathered in East Flatbush for the unveiling of Jean-Jacques Dessalines…
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Proposal to Coname Brooklyn Street After Haiti Founding Father Makes Headway
On April 18, Community Board 17, which represents the neighborhoods of East Flatbush, Northeast East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut/Hyde Park, Remsen Village, Ditmas Village and Erasmus, voted to co-name Rogers Avenue, from Farragut to Eastern Parkway, with Jean Jacques Dessalines Blvd.