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Naomi Osaka thegrio.com
May 3, 2021
Tennis star Naomi Osaka recently announced she is expanding her tennis academy to Haiti and Los Angeles, California.
Kingstown St Vincent & The Grenadines Caribbean
April 28, 2021
Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett says there's an urgent need for assistance for Caribbean nations as they battle through the pandemic.
Immigrants Receive COVID-19 Vaccinations At Community Center Event
April 10, 2021
A year after the coronavirus pandemic, Haiti has yet to receive COVID vaccines to provide for its more than 11…
A man holds a Haitian flag
March 22, 2021
OPINION: Haitians are dying, but it is not from COVID-19. It is a result of the cancerous unchecked government bureaucracy.
Biden Administration Allows Asylum Seekers In Mexico To Begin Crossing Border
March 12, 2021
Department of Homeland Security officials knew deporting Haitian immigrants back to their country would put them in harm's way.
February 2, 2021
Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY) has reacted to the 'unlawful' deportation of constituent Paul Pierrilus, to Haiti.
January 21, 2021
Rep. Mondaire Jones and his team worked together with attorneys to prevent Paul Pierrilus from being illegally deported to Haiti.
Acting CBP Commissioner Resigns As Outrage Over Treatment Of Migrant Minors Grows
January 19, 2021
Brothers Christian Laporte, 19, and Vladimir Fardin, 9, are being held at the San Francisco International Airport.
October 11, 2020
“I can tell you Kamala is in the tongue of everyone,” said Florida Mayor Hazelle Rogers, the state's first Jamaican…
August 19, 2020
OPINION: Trump has favored inserting his idea of Africa into domestic 'culture wars' rather than engaging the continent constructively.
August 19, 2020
The anti-Blackness on full display in the U.S. is also at the root of the anti-Black immigration policies pursued by…
Dash Harris www.theGrio.com
June 16, 2020
Dash Harris' docu-series 'NEGRO: A DOCU-SERIES ABOUT LATINX IDENTITY' provokes conversations surrouding identity, colonization, racism and the African Diaspora.
May 18, 2020
'Insecure' star Jean Elie is working on the ‘Send Help’, a dark comedy series about a first-generation Haitian-American supporting his…
April 14, 2020
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was a Haitian native, traveling as a second-class passenger on Titanic with his wife and two…
December 19, 2019
United Nations troops sent to Haiti to protect the population are accused of bribing or coercing women for sex and…
October 15, 2019
Conflict with protesters in the Caribbean nation demanding the resignation of president Jovenel Moïse is becoming increasingly tense
Haiti
October 3, 2019
Before the newest round of protests began in early September, Haiti’s economy was already flailing.
Haiti
October 1, 2019
Thousands of demonstrators set fires Monday and chanted calls for Haiti's president to resign as the opposition to Jovenel Moïse…
Ruling party Senator Ralph Fethiere fires his gun outside Parliament as he arrives for a ceremony to ratify Fritz William Michel's nomination as prime minister in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. Opposition members confronted ruling-party senators, and Fethiere pulled a pistol when protesters rushed at him and members of his entourage. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) thegrio.com
September 24, 2019
A Haitian senator reportedly went rogue and opened fire on a crowd outside Parliament where an election was taking place…
Haiti
August 29, 2019
As relations warm between Haiti and the Kremlin, concern may rise in Washington over dealings between the two countries who…