{"id":268827,"date":"2026-05-13T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:04:08","slug":"miami-gardens-councilwoman-linda-julien-discusses-haitian-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268827\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Gardens Councilwoman Linda Julien discusses Haitian Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PEMBROKE PARK, Fla.  \u2014 This month is Haitian Heritage Month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">South Florida\u2019s Haitian community is a very proud one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There are several gatherings and events planned throughout the month to recognize Haitian heritage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Someone who knows quite a bit about that is Miami Gardens Councilwoman Linda Julien. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Julian was the first Haitian-American councilwoman to be elected in Miami Gardens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She joined Local 10 News to discuss Haitian Heritage Month, the events around town and what it means to her. Her full conversation with Local 10\u2019s Calvin Hughes can be seen at the top of this page. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Calvin Hughes\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1e42b25-58dc-410e-84.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Calvin Hughes<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Nine-time Emmy Award-winning newscaster Calvin Hughes co-anchors WPLG-Local 10\u2019s 4, 5, 6, 9 and 11 p.m. newscasts along with Nicole Perez.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. \u2014 This month is Haitian Heritage Month. South Florida\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-268827","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\/268827","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=268827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}