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Little Haiti (French: La Petite Haïti, Haitian Creole: Ti Ayiti), [1] [2] is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. It is known historically as Lemon City, Little River and Edison. It is known historically as Lemon City, Little River and Edison.
Viter Juste (December 15, 1924 – November 19, 2012) was a Haitian-born American community leader, businessman, and activist. Juste coined the name, "Little Haiti," for the neighborhood in Miami, Florida which is a center of the Haitian-American community in Florida.
About 100 Miami residents gathered Tuesday at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex to express their displeasure over the institution’s direction.
In the 1980s, Miami started to see an increase in immigrants from other nations, such as Haiti. As the Haitian population grew in Miami, the area known today as "Little Haiti" emerged, centered on Northeast Second Avenue and 54th Street. In 1985, Xavier Suarez was elected as Mayor of Miami, becoming the first Cuban mayor of a major city.
Miami-made film about gentrification in Little Haiti is making a splash at festivals Filmmaker Monica Sorelle’s latest project, “Mountains,” focuses on gentrification in Miami’s Little ...
“Mountains,” an acclaimed slice-of-life film about gentrification in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, won the Made In MIA Feature Film Award along with a $25,000 prize at the festival’s ...
Roughly bound by North 36 St (US 27) to the south, North 43rd Street to the north, West First Avenue to the west and Biscayne Boulevard to the east, [2] the Design District is in the crossroads of many prominent Miami neighborhoods: the artsy Wynwood neighborhood to the south, Lemon City (Little Haiti) and the historic 1920s Buena Vista ...
By the time Little Haiti officially established its boundaries in 2016, the neighborhood was already being bought up by developers who had been after the area’s cheap land and high elevation.