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MetroFocus: August 19, 2021
Season 2021
Episode 6209
Tonight, State Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, the first Haitian-American to serve in New York’s Assembly, joins us to discuss her office’s efforts to support the people of Haiti as well as New York’s large Haitian population. Also, attorney and author Mark Torres joins us to discuss his new book “Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood.”
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