Phil Marius, an activist and founding member of the Staten Island Democratic Socialists of America branch, near the Staten Island Ferry dock on August 01, 2021. Marius plans to run in the city council race as a Democrat.

Haitian-led dance group La Troupe Zetwal perform a traditional Afro-Haitian dance named Yanvalou, part of Vodou rituals and ceremonies for centuries, on Sept 19, 2020.

Members of the Haitian community commemorate the 10th anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti with a ceremony on Prospect Park, on January 12, 2020.

Activist Sabina Dorvile said of Juneteenth that it is a day “for us, by us, just to celebrate us as people and where we come from and where we’re going.

Police officers guard a group of mostly Haitian during a J’ouvert parade on Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, September 6, 2021..

A Haitian asylum seeker checks on his phone while it charges at a gas station in Del Rio, TX, on September 21, 2021.

Some of the asylum seekers were released with electronic devices. Those did had to find electrical outlets for recharging their device.

A Haitian couple converse at the gas station in Del Rio, TX that functioned as transportation hub, and waiting area for many Haitian asylum seekers released in the US, on September 21, 2021.