Magnitude Earthquake Hit Haiti’s Capital

(CNN) — “A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tuesday near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey. Several witnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the Haitian capital. There was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening, but the U.S. State Department has been told to expect “serious loss of life,” [...]

Petition to cancel Haiti’s debt

Dear friends, As the world sees the horror of Haiti’s earthquake, charitable donations are flooding in — Avaaz members alone have donated over $500,000 in less than a day. These funds are desperately needed. But even as they flow in, Haiti is sending money out–to pay off national debts run up by corrupt governments in [...]

Haiti Needs Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Re: Aristide and Haiti From: Abdul Alkalimat <mcworter@ILLINOIS.EDU> Add to Contacts To: H-AFRO-AM@H-NET.MSU.EDU   // From: MOLEFI K. ASANTE <masante@temple.edu> Haiti Needs Jean-Bertrand Aristide President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is the one contemporary Haitian who brings the heroic legacies of L’Ouverture, Dessalines, Christophe, and Petion, the four horsemen of Haitian political history, to the current crisis. Aristide, [...]

Haiti: the Land of bitter tears!

Haiti: the Land of bitter tears! By Celucien L. Joseph (January 14, 2010)   Oh the most merciful and gracious God, why Haiti again? Have we not had enough? Is this what you call love? This justice is bitter We who are left, how shall we look up?   God of our bitter tears, Where’s grace [...]

An Open Letter to David Brooks on Haiti

An Open Letter to David Brooks on Haiti  Dear Mr. Brooks,  In your January 15, 2010 opinion piece in The New York Times, “The Underlying Tragedy,” you present what you seem to believe is a bold assessment of the situation in Haiti and what you certainly know is a provocative recommendation for Haiti’s future. You [...]

Haitian-American Author, Edwidge Danticat Won the the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship

Haiti-born writer Edwidge Danticat has won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship, which comes with $500,000. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com Miami writer Edwidge Danticat was holding her 9-month-old daughter, Leila, while trying to read the computer screen when the phone rang. “Are you sitting down?” the caller asked. “Yes. I am holding my baby,” she said. [...]

Antenor Firmin and Barack Obama

Worth reading : Antenor Firmin predicted America’s first Black president in 1885! by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

New Books on Haiti

Haitians and African Americans: A Heritage of Tragedy and Hope by LEON D. PAMPHILE From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution by Michael O. West (Editor), William G. Martin (Editor), Fanon Che Wilkins (Editor)

Love and Haiti

Conde Nast Traveler (September 2009) URL:  http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/articles/501372 Love and Haiti By Amy Wilenz You can call Haiti the Cleopatra of countries—its ravishing natural assets, thrilling history, and magnetic culture have long made select visitors swoon. Its tortured past, however, has made it the Caribbean nation that tourism largely forgot. But this, reports Amy Wilentz, may [...]

City of St. Augustine Remembers Jorge Biassou

Haitian champion remembered Historical figure who lived interesting life could attract tourists to Nation’s Oldest City By ANTHONY DeMATTEO  |   More by this reporter  |  anthony.dematteo@staugustine.com  |   Posted: Sunday, August 30, 2009 ; Updated: 11:33 PM on Sunday, August 30, 2009 St. Augustine officials hope the legend of a man who helped lead history’s bloodiest slave revolt [...]