“A Haitian Slave Turned Emperor Brings Celebration and Controversy to Brooklyn,” by Jeffery C. Mays
August 18, 2018
“But the naming of Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard — along Rogers Avenue between Farragut Road and Eastern Parkway — and the neighborhood designation were not without complications.
Some felt Little Haiti was redundant because the area had previously been christened Little Caribbean by another group. And the street co-naming was delayed because of Dessalines’s controversial history…”
Michael C. Reyes, Ph.D 