And here in New York City, protesters gathered outside the Dominican Consulate Friday to show support for Pulitzer Prize-winning, Dominican-born author Junot Díaz. Last week the Dominican consul in New York called Díaz “anti-Dominican” and stripped him of his 2009 Order of Merit Award for protesting the Dominican government’s moves to deport hundreds of thousands of people of Haitian descent. Díaz lobbied against the deportations in Washington, D.C., last week alongside Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat.