PROGRAM
CaribME: New Yorkers of the Caribbean Diaspora Premiere Film Presentation
Welcome Dr. Roy A. Hastick, Sr.,
CACCI New Website Premiere Solomon Luke
Acknowledgements and Introduction Loretta Green-Williams, Dr. Hastick
Introduction of Documentary Dana Verde
Caribbean Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to the Caribbean.
About 2,532,380 Americans or 0.83% of the total population reported Caribbean
ancestry in 2008. The Caribbean is the source of the United States' earliest and largest
Black immigrant group and the primary source of growth of the Black population in the
U.S. The region has exported more of its people than any other area of the world since
the abolition of slavery in 1834. While the largest Caribbean immigrant sources to the
U.S. are Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Haiti, U.S. citizen migrants also
come from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indian_Americans, accessed May 3, 2017).