Anton Joseph Cermak was an American politician who served as the 44th mayor of Chicago,Illinois,from April 7,1931,until his assassination in 1933. He was killed by an assassin,whose likely target was President Franklin D. Roosevelt,but Cermak was shot instead after a bystander hit the perpetrator with a purse.
Cutler Bay is an incorporated town in Miami-Dade County,Florida,United States,established in 2005. With a population of 45,425 as of the 2020 US census,it is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. Cutler Bay is the 9th most populous of the 34 municipalities that make up Miami's urban core,and the 33rd most populous of the 163 municipalities.
Doral is a city in Miami-Dade County,Florida,United States. One of 34 municipalities in the county,it is located 5 miles (8 km) west of Miami International Airport and 13 miles (21 km) west of Downtown Miami. Doral occupies 15 square miles (39 km2) bordered on the west by the Ronald Reagan Turnpike and the Florida Everglades,on the north by the town of Medley,on the east by the Palmetto Expressway and on the south by the Dolphin Expressway and the city of Sweetwater. The city is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. As of the 2020 census,Doral had a population of 75,874,up from 45,704 in 2010.
North Miami is a suburban city located in northeast Miami-Dade County,Florida,United States,about 10 miles (16 km) north of Miami. The city lies on Biscayne Bay and hosts the Biscayne Bay Campus of Florida International University.. Originally the town of "Arch Creek",the area was incorporated as the "Town of Miami Shores",which was renamed the "Town of North Miami" in 1931. It was reincorporated as a city in 1953. The city is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida.
North Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County,Florida,United States. The city is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. Originally named "Fulford-by-the-Sea" in 1926 after Captain William H. Fulford of the U.S. Coast Guard,the city was renamed "North Miami Beach" in 1931. The population was 43,676 at the 2020 US census.
Opa-locka is a city in Miami-Dade County,Florida,United States. The city is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. As of the 2020 census,the population was 16,463,up from 15,219 in 2010.
Miami Gardens is a city in north-central Miami-Dade County,Florida,United States. It is located 16 miles (26 km) north of Downtown Miami with city boundaries that stretch from I-95 and Northeast 2nd Avenue to its east to Northwest 47th and Northwest 57th Avenues to its west,and from the Broward County line to its north to 151st Street to its south. The city's name originated from Florida State Road 860,a major roadway through the area also known as Miami Gardens Drive. Miami Gardens had a population of 111,640 as of 2020. It is Florida's most populous city with a majority African American population and also home to the largest percentage of African Americans of any city in Florida,according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It is a principal city in the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida,which is the nation's ninth-largest,and world's 65th-largest metropolitan area with a population of 6.158 million people as of 2020. Miami Gardens is the home of Hard Rock Stadium,a 64,767 capacity multi-purpose stadium that serves as the home field for both the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League and the Miami Hurricanes,the University of Miami's NCAA Division I college football team,which has won five national championships since 1983.
Little Haiti,is a neighborhood of Miami,Florida,United States. It is known historically as Lemon City,Little River and Edison. It is home to Haitian immigrant residents,as well as residents from the rest of the Caribbean.
Thousands of years before Europeans arrived,a large portion of south east Florida,including the area where Miami,Florida exists today,was inhabited by Tequestas. The Tequesta Native American tribe,at the time of first European contact,occupied an area along the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida. They had infrequent contact with Europeans and had largely migrated by the middle of the 18th century. Miami is named after the Mayaimi,a Native American tribe that lived around Lake Okeechobee until the 17th or 18th century.
Haitian Americans are a group of Americans of full or partial Haitian origin or descent. The largest proportion of Haitians in the United States live in Little Haiti to the South Florida area. In addition,they have settled in major Northeast cities such as New York City,Boston,Philadelphia,Baltimore and Washington,D.C.,and in Chicago and Detroit in the Midwest. Most are immigrants or their descendants from the mid-late 20th-century migrations to the United States. Haitian Americans represent the largest group within the Haitian diaspora.
Michel Joseph Martelly is a Haitian musician and politician who was the President of Haiti from May 2011 until February 2016.
Josaphat J. Celestin,also known as Joe Celestin,is an American politician who served as the mayor of North Miami,Florida from 2001 to 2005. A Republican,he was the first Haitian-American of a sizable city in the United States.
Philippe Derose is the first Haitian-American elected into public office in the United States of America in modern times. In 1993,he was elected as a Councilman of the Village of El Portal,in Miami-Dade County,Florida. In 2000,Derose became the first Haitian-American to be elected mayor in the United States when he was elected Mayor of the Village of El Portal.
Kevin Burns is an American realtor,business owner,and former mayor of North Miami,Florida,from 2005 to 2009.
Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census,making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the United States. It is Florida's third largest county in terms of land area with 1,946 square miles (5,040 km2). The county seat is Miami,the core of the nation's ninth-largest and world's 65th-largest metropolitan area with a 2020 population of 6.138 million people,exceeding the population of 31 of the nation's 50 states as of 2022.
Andre Pierre is an American attorney and Democratic politician and who served as mayor of North Miami,Florida.
Carlos Hernández is a Cuban-born American politician. Hernández served as the mayor of Hialeah,Florida,from May 2011 to November 2021. He became acting mayor in 2011 upon the resignation of his predecessor,Julio Robaina,who left the Hialeah mayoral office to pursue an unsuccessful campaign for Mayor of Miami-Dade County.
Jean Monestime is an American politician,real estate businessman and member of the Miami-Dade County Commission since 2010. He is the first Haitian-American to serve as a Miami-Dade County commissioner,as well as the first to chair the commission. Monestime represents District 2 in northeast Miami-Dade County,which incorporates portions of North Miami,North Miami Beach and Biscayne Gardens,as well as the Miami neighborhoods of Little Haiti and Liberty City.
On July 18,2016,Charles Kinsey,a behavior therapist,was shot in the leg by a police officer in North Miami,Florida. Kinsey had been retrieving his 27-year-old autistic patient,Arnaldo Rios Soto,who had run away from his group home. Police encountered the pair while they were searching for an armed suicidal man. Kinsey was lying on the ground with his hands in the air,and trying to negotiate between officers and his patient,when he was shot. The officer who shot Kinsey said he had been aiming at the patient,who the officer believed was threatening Kinsey with a gun. Both Kinsey and his patient were unarmed.
