Haiti is administratively divided into 10 departments, which are subdivided into districts, each of which has communes. The communes are in turn divided into community sections, and these are made up of neighborhoods. According to Haitian and international humanitarian and human rights organizations working in Haiti, this administrative structure may vary and there can be additional or different subdivisions in some places, for example in densely populated or large communes, where residents
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Deadly Voyages: Haitian Migration Film and Panel Discussion. On Friday, June 17, 2022, join the in-person community event focusing on the largest Haitian migration to the U.S. in 20 years, hosted by the Miami Herald and the Miami Herald Impact Journalism Fund. The event will feature a screening of Cargo, a melodrama by Bahamian writer-director Kareem J. Mortimer about smugglers taking Haitians to American shores. The event will present a Miami Herald series supported by the Pulitzer Center. The series of reports, by grantee Jaqueline Charles, is titled Desperate Voyages and focuses on the measures taken by Haitian migrants to reach American shores and the causes of their exodus. Other panelists will include video artist Edison Peñafiel and local migration experts. The event will be moderated by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat, author of the memoir Brother, I’m Dying. The film will screen 6-8pm EDT, and the panel discussion will begin at 8:30pm EDT. You can register fo
Writers from the South Florida Sun Sentinel were named winners of the annual Esserman-Knight journalism awards for public service reporting. The reporters were honored for stories about police misuse of K9 units against African-Americans, as well as articles about laws and regulations in the aftermath of the partial collapse of the Champlain South condo towers in Surfside.