Carol Guzy stops for a moment and takes in the joy making images in Perpignan, France while attending "Visa pour l'Image." Photo by Carl Juste/ Iris PhotoCollective A “Havana,Haiti” contributor, the only person to win 4 Pulitzer Prizes for photojournalism, a wonderful compassionate photojournalist, a legend ( this is not hyperbole),...
Award-winning author and HavanaHaiti contributor, Edwidge Danticat, was interviewed by Luis Hernandez the host of WLRN's Sundial. Listen to the complete interview during the encore broadcast it's WLRN's Spring Membership Pledge Drive, S. Florida premiere public radio station WLRN (91.3fm). Danticat is the author of stories, essays, travel commentary, film scripts,...
[video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://havana-haiti.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Visionary-Aponte_1.mp4"][/video] "You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt,but still, like dust, I'll rise." - Maya Angelou José Antonio Aponte, often known as “Black” José Aponte, (died April 9, 1812, in Havana) was a Cuban activist, military officer and carpenter of Yoruba origin who...
The words of President Trump were not surprising, only the silence. How many times his insults and verbal denigration of immigrants and people of color were uttered and those in attendance remained silent? How many times must politicians remain complicit in both in words and action? Edwidge Danticat refuses to...
Coral Gables Museum will be launching the exhibition and book release of "Havana and Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community in Fall 2019. "The Museum’s mission is to celebrate, investigate and explore the civic arts of architecture and urban and environmental design, including fostering an appreciation for the history, vision, and cultural...
Exhibit is open at Little Haiti Cultural Complex through January 20, 2018 “Havana, Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community,” was conceived to shatter a myth — that Cubans and Haitians have no more in common than Caribbean waters and the city of Miami — and set the record straight — that throughout...
During the course of producing "Havana and Haiti...
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Cubans and Haitians have flooded into Florida for generations, creating in Miami their eponymous neighborhoods: Little Havana and Little Haiti. Unfortunately, Cubans and Haitians haven't often come together harmoniously. Photojournalist Carl-Philipe Juste, born in Haiti to parents with Cuban roots, has always known that Haitian and Cuban cultures have more...