Haitian Immigrant Boat Sinks

9 Dead, 16 Saved After Boat Of Haitian Immigrants SinksBy Associated Press May 14, 2009 8:08 am “Rescuers were searching the ocean off Florida Thursday for survivors after a boat carrying about 30 people — many of them Haitian immigrants seeking to escape their country’s crushing poverty — capsized and sank. At least nine people [...]

John Hope Franklin Dies

Reported by ASALH John Hope Franklin, the scholar who was a pioneer in the field of African American history and dominated it for nearly six decades, has died at the age of 94. Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, was a scholar who brought intellectual rigor as well as an engaged passion to [...]