With TPS ending for Haitians, thousands in the U.S. — including longtime Minnesota residents — are facing job loss, deportation, and separation from the only homes they’ve known for over a decade.
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Anti-Haitian rhetoric: A long history of prejudice
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has been defending false claim that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been abducting and eating area cats and dogs, perpetuating a long history of prejudice towards Haitians in the United States.
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Haitians looking to escape violence and chaos face hostility in neighboring Dominican Republic
Haitians seeking safety in the Dominican Republic face anti-Haitian xenophobia, mass deportations, and inhumane treatment.
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From gang boss to political aspirant: Former police officer Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier leads Haiti’s uprising
Former gang boss and policeman, Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, is leading the violent uprising in Haiti.
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The Haiti Support Project condemns mass deportation of Haitians
‘We are absolutely outraged by the images of Haitians being herded and whipped like cattle…’
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The vultures will be circling Haiti yet again
‘If Haiti can’t catch a break it’s because imperialism in Haiti has been so relentless.’
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Haiti digs out from another massive earthquake
The devastation, of course, comes only five weeks after gunmen burst into Haiti’s presidential palace and assassinated President Jovenel Moïse.
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Tropical storm now threatens earthquake-ravaged Haiti
At least 1,300 people died during the earthquake in western Haiti.
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The U.S. has been no friend to Haiti
Details about the plot are important, but so is understanding the history of Haiti’s relationship with the U.S. and other countries.
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Haiti in turmoil after president’s assassination
‘The only ones who stand to gain from this are the same people who always have. My people are angry and we should be.’
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Slain Haitian president faced calls for resignation, sustained mass protests before killing
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in the early Tuesday morning in a brazen attack on his private home outside Port-au-Prince, the capital.
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Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, ‘the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere’
The Haitian Revolution led to the creation of the first free Black state in the Americas. But the world was hardly expecting a former enslaved man named Henry Christophe to make himself the king of it.
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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 of Brooklyn would now be called Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard, after a Haitian slave turned revolutionary general. When Dessalines declared Haiti’s independence from France in 1804 after a 13-year slave uprising and civil war, he became […]
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Trump disparages African nations
Civil rights groups, U.S. lawmakers condemn president’s latest slurs. Trump made the comments during a meeting with Republican and Democratic congressmen about immigration reform and President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The New York Times reported: “When Mr. Trump heard that Haitians were among those who would benefit from the proposed deal, he […]