N.Y. Haitians See Chance for Clout
After a week of watching news coverage of the Haiti earthquake, Nadege Fleurimond, a Haitian-American event planner in New York, fired off an e-mail message to about three dozen friends and associates. Though she was moved by the outpouring of help from local Haitians, she was frustrated that the effort had not coalesced into something larger and more visible.
“No major press conferences, no major vigils, no major anything with a statement,” she wrote. “Nothing being written about us besides the fact that we were sad and shocked.”
Ángel Franco/The New York Times
Goby's Barber Shop on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn. The region's Haitians are scattered in Brooklyn, Queens and the suburbs.
The problem, she suggested, was that Haitians, for all their history and achievements in New York, had not emerged as a discernible entity, with prominent leaders, a united presence, a public face.
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