African Americans and the Haitian Revolution

Book Explores Impact of Haitian Revolution Scholars have long recognized the Haitian Revolution as a defining event for African Americans. But Maurice Jackson, associate professor of history and African American studies, has co-edited a book that draws together the Haitian Revolution’s impact on African Americans — exploring inspiration and influence on black nationalism, abolitionism, black [...]

Americans Charged with Child Trafficking in Haiti

Detained Americans say they had good intentions in Haiti (CNN) Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Ten Americans charged with trafficking in Haiti defended their plan to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic, saying their intention was to get them to a temporary shelter. “We came into Haiti to help those that really had no other [...]

President Thabo Mbeki on Haiti

Thabo Mbeki on Haiti  (Time Lives) “The Big Read: It was difficult to hold back the tears as a deluge of news told of the catastrophe visited on the people of Haiti by the earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince on January 12.  ON REFLECTION: Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Former president Thabo Mbeki says the people of Haiti are [...]

Securing Disaster in Haiti

Securing Disaster in Haiti (Americas Program) Peter Hallward | January 22, 2010 Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, it’s now clear that the initial phase of the U.S.-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course of the island’s recent [...]

Haiti I’m sorry

Haiti I’m sorry We misunderstood you One day we’ll turn our heads And look inside you Haiti I’m sorry We misunderstood you One day we’ll turn our heads Restore your glory (David Rudder, “Haiti.” The Gilded Collection, 1985-1989)

“Civilizing” Haiti

“Civilizing” Haiti (Boston Review) Colin Dayan It is now eight days since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, along with numerous other places that we do not hear much about—Carrefour Feuille, Léogane, Petit Goave, Miragoâne, Jacmel. My friends in Haiti report that the UN and the U.S. military and the countless humanitarian aid agencies are nowhere to [...]

Haiti: the Hate and Quake, by Sir Hilary Beckles

  The Hate and the Quake 1/19/2010 By Sir Hilary Beckles The University of the West Indies is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme “Rethinking and Rebuilding Haiti”. I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been [...]

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,” [...]

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, [...]

Antenor Firmin and Barack Obama

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