Little Haiti

The Haitian women's national soccer team, starting play in its first-ever World Cup this week, has brought sorely needed inspiration to crisis-ravaged Haiti — and to Miami.

Journalists Ana Arana and Oz Woloshyn, the hosts and reporters behind the podcast “Silenced: The Radio Murders,” join WLRN's Carlos Frías. The series is about the murders of local Creole radio journalists in Little Haiti in the 1990s.

“Give Them Their Flowers” is a local exhibit paying homage to Miami's Black queer history and community. Loni Johnson is one of the participating artists. Her work focuses on honoring the people it was too late to honor in life, inviting us to remember and show love. She joined WLRN's Carlos Frías.

“Give Them Their Flowers,” a new exhibition at the Little Haiti Cultural Center Art Gallery, displays and celebrates Miami’s under-documented Black LGBTQ community at a time when Florida’s government has become increasingly hostile toward Black and LGBTQ representation.

On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we looked into the four arrests that were made in South Florida in connection to the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 (01:03), the unsafe structure violations that the Caribbean Marketplace at the Little Haiti Cultural Center received (18:37), and Palm Beach County’s upcoming municipal elections (39:11).

The City of Miami took ownership of the building in 2005 and planned to demolish it to the ground, until activists convinced the city to back off. Some fear it could be happening again.

Photographer Carl Juste and historian Rebecca Friedman talk to host Carlos Frías about a series of conversations they're hosting this weekend at IPC ArtSpace in Little Haiti to preview an upcoming exhibition about Miami's memorial rituals.

As a first step to early treatment, health workers who speak Haitian Creole are teaching people in Little Haiti how to test themselves for HPV, the virus that causes half of all cervical cancers.

Haitian Heritage Month's final Little Haiti events include the internationally acclaimed film "Freda," a hopeful portrait of Haitians dealing with national collapse.

Tension grow in Broward County over staffing shortages at the 911 call center. Plus, Viter and Maria Juste built the foundation of what Little Haiti is today. We hear from their son about their family’s legacy. And it’s Wildlife Thursday — we’re talking about small creatures that have a mighty impact.

We hear the story of a man who spent 32 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. Plus, an FIU student is trying to help her family and others stuck in the war back home in Ukraine. And during Haitian Heritage Month, we're speaking with an award-winning author about the significance of this celebration.

More than 300,000 women around the world die from cervical cancer each year, but the disease is preventable. So the World Health Organization has launched a plan to eradicate the disease. They're working in communities across the world, including right here in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami.