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Jan 15, 2025 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Garry Pierre-Pierre
Posted Wednesday, January 15, 2025 9:56 am In 2024 year, The Haitian Times achieved a monumental milestone: its 25th anniversary. At times, it feels as though it were just 25 days ago that I launched this publication to serve the Haitian community.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
theemancipator.org | Garry Pierre-Pierre
A few days after Donald Trump’s reelection, a chilling ripple coursed through the Haitian community of Springfield, Ohio. Families packed hastily and fled the city in fear of imminent deportation. Their leaders, with a mix of pragmatism and despair, urged them to stay. “Leaving in droves,” they warned, “would be futile.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
haitiantimes.com | Garry Pierre-Pierre |Gary Pierre-Pierre
Overview: The Haitian Times founder, Garry Pierre-Pierre reflects on 25 years at the helm of The Haitian Times and announces his transition from publisher to special advisor. In 2024 year, The Haitian Times achieved a monumental milestone: its 25th anniversary. At times, it feels as though it were just 25 days ago that I launched this publication to serve the Haitian community. Other times, it feels like 250 years.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
haitiantimes.com | Garry Pierre-Pierre |Gary Pierre-Pierre
Overview: Clarissa “Cris” Hurley Wilkinson, remembered for her love, faith, and devotion to family, dies at 84. Clarissa “Cris” Hurley Wilkinson, a longtime resident of Crawfordsville and Lafayette, passed away on Monday, December 2, 2024, after a short battle with cancer. She was 84. Born in Indianapolis on September 4, 1940, Clarissa moved to Crawfordsville in 1965 after meeting Donald Wilkinson, the love of her life.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
journalreview.com | Garry Pierre-Pierre
Clarissa “Cris” Hurley Wilkinson, a longtime resident of Crawfordsville and Lafayette, passed away on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, at the age of 84. Born in Indianapolis on Sept. 4, 1940, Clarissa moved to Crawfordsville in 1965 after meeting Donald Wilkinson, the love of her life.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Garry Pierre-Pierre
Although he pointedly avoided any direct response to the lies Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, continue to spread about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, during a Springfield town hall Thursday night, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy did not exactly refute the provenly false and racist claims. "'I’m not here to talk about the issues that the media has really loved to obsess over — OK? — cats and dogs. We’re not talking about that time.
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May 1, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Garry Pierre-Pierre
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May 1, 2024 | 
vpm.org | Garry Pierre-Pierre
Haiti’s new transitional presidential council chose a new prime minister on Tuesday. Fritz Bélizaire served as Haiti’s sports minister from 2006 to 2011.
Garry Pierre-Pierre, founder of The Haitian Times, joins us to discuss. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
haitiantimes.com | Garry Pierre-Pierre |Gary Pierre-Pierre
There is a sense of predictability on how the conversation will go whenever I introduce myself to a Dominican person in the United States. “We’re neighbors,” is the first thing that I hear from my acquaintance, punctuated with a seemingly sincere smile. This bonhomie often perplexes me because of the tortured history between the two nations that share the island of Hispaniola. Why is it that Haitians and Dominicans get along so well in the U.S. and have frayed relations back home?
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
haitiantimes.com | Garry Pierre-Pierre
One of the first persons I met on the beat covering New York’s then emerging Haitian community was the Rev. Philius H. Nicolas, the pastor of the Evangelical Crusade Church in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn. He and other secular leaders had invited me to the church to explore writing a story about their work in the community and what they were up to.
