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June is Caribbean American Heritage Month
Caribbean-American Karine Jean-Pierre named White House Press Secretary
June is a celebration of Juneteenth
June is Pride Month
This Caribbean American Heritage Month we celebrate Karine JeanPierre. Karine is now the White House Press Secretary. In May, she made history by becoming the first openly gay spokeswoman and only the second Black woman to conduct a briefing from the podium of the White House briefing room. and of course the first person of Caribbean roots. in that role. Jean-Pierre was born in Martinique after her parents fled Haiti. When she was five years old, the family immigrated to New York. Even though her father had an engineering degree, he worked as a taxi driver, while her mother was employed as a home health aide. “They came here for the American dream that in many ways eluded them,” she said in an interview with PBS. “They still live check to check, but in their eyes, because I made it to the White House, because their daughter went to Columbia, they have received it.”