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Grassroots | A big day for Haiti, a big day for little Haitians (w/ multimedia)

Miami | Haiti past, present and future came together early in May on an urban oasis in Little Haiti. After 10 years of negotiation and bureaucratic delay, an all too rare inner-city, publicly funded, full-size soccer pitch opened on one-time industrial ground north of downtown. With multimedia and podcast.

Fields | A new place to play in Little Haiti

Miami, Feb 9 | A cultural renaissance in Miami’s La Petite Haiti (Little Haiti), the most populous Haitian neighborhood outside the Caribbean nation, continues as a community complex and soccer park conceived 10 years ago come to fruition.

A series of soccer games on 3 May will conclude two days of inaugural events, including an art exhibition at the nine-acre site at Northeast Second Avenue and 59th Street.

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Such moments in the spin of a ball make us sit up with delight, returning hope to the hopeless and faith to the faithless, bringing back memories of our fathers, our childhoods, or simply other such nanoseconds we have experienced. (Marcela Mora y Araujo, Guardian Unlimited, 6 Jul 07)

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