Haiti in Harlem | September 29 – October 6
Haiti is Latin America’s oldest nation and the world’s first black republic, born of history’s only successful slave revolution. Eight evenings of films – both narrative features and documentary – will explore the country’s politics and culture as well as the trials of its diaspora.
Marking the anniversary of the September 30, 1991 U.S. – backed coup against Haiti’s first freely elected government, this series will lay out the intertwined pasts of Haiti and the United States.
Maysles Institute | 343 Malcolm X Boulevard / Lenox Avenue | between 127th and 128th Streets
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by Grace A Ali