{"id":253203,"date":"2026-05-01T00:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253203\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:04:31","slug":"miami-police-little-haiti-residents-throw-cultural-party-ahead-of-start-of-haitian-heritage-month-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253203\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Police, Little Haiti residents throw cultural party ahead of start of Haitian Heritage Month &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; South Florida is celebrating Haitian heritage \u2014 with a cultural party.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Police Department and some residents of the city\u2019s Little Haiti section teamed up for a street celebration this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Residents enjoyed a day of music, dancing, food and artwork, all of it paying tribute to their traditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strong sense of community that our Haitian community has, our strong sense of workmanship. The way that they gravitate towards family. I think that they are an absolute asset to our community, I think that they\u2019re an absolute asset to the City of Miami, and I pray that there is a path to keeping all these good folks in our city,\u201d said Miami Police Chief Manuel Morales. <\/p>\n<p>The event comes ahead of \u2018Haitian Heritage Month,\u2019 which kicks off on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; South Florida is celebrating Haitian heritage \u2014 with a cultural party. The Miami Police Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-253203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}