Charleston Chronicle
State Department Raises Travel Warning Over Haiti Unrest
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Demonstrators are filling the streets of downtown Port au Prince in Haiti. […read more]
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Business
PRESS ROOM: Rep. Maxine Waters to Receive NAACP Chairman’s Award
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Leon W. Russell, Chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors, will present Congresswoman Waters with the award at the 50th NAACP Image Awards on March 30, 2019 live at 9pm/8c on TV One. […read more]
Community
Local Educators Announce Initiatives For Black Lives Matter At School’s Week Of Action
THE SEATTLE MEDIUM — The Black Lives Matter At Schools Movement’s momentum is growing as its impact on the community has been fruitful. […read more]
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Naomi Osaka has arrived, wins Australian Open and No. 1 world ranking
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — There’s a new No. 1 in women’s tennis. Naomi Osaka grabbed the crown by defeating Petra Kvitova. […read more]
Afro
COMMENTARY: The Debt We Owe Haitians
THE AFRO — Even though Haitians shed blood for American independence, the United States in its foreign policy has always held a deep-seated hostility towards Haiti, […read more]
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Afro
Group Run by Black Men Donates More Than 30,000 Books to Children
THE AFRO — B.L.A.C.K. 2 Life, a nonprofit run by six Black men, has donated 30,000 books to children worldwide and is now seeking both financial support and more volunteers. […read more]
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Commentary
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson’s Statement on Ruling to Block Deportation of TPS Beneficiaries
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The ruling to block the Trump administration’s effort to end Temporary Protected Status for 300,000 immigrants who are living and working legally in the United States, including thousands of Haitians in my district, is good news. It is, however, only a temporary reprieve, which is why I will continue to fight to extend, not end, TPS. […read more]
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Deceit in Free Trade Agreements
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I quickly figured it out. This whole agreement was about how they could get more products from China tariff free. It soon became apparent that this “blue print” was happening all over Africa.” […read more]
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UN Observes International Remembrance of Slave Trade
Each year, on Aug. 23, the United Nations hosts an International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition to remind the world of the tragedy of the transatlantic slave trade. […read more]
National
Hurricane Matthew’s U.S. Impacts: Life-Threatening Storm Surge, Damaging Winds, Flooding Rainfall
[WEATHER.COM] Hurricane Matthew is set to deliver a devastating blow to eastern Florida starting Thursday night, and then will hammer areas farther north up the coast in Georgia and the Carolinas Friday into the weekend. An important point to make is that landfall does NOT Read More
World
Haiti World Bank Report: Time for a Social Contract
(Miami Herald) – As Haiti’s presidential campaigning slowly gains momentum amid continuing uncertainty about the fate of the country’s scheduled Oct. 25 elections, a new World Bank report calls for a social contract to improve the lives of all Haitians. The report notes that natural disasters and Read More
Sports
Chung Denies Wrongdoing in Payments to Haiti, Pakistan
(Reuters) – FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon said on Wednesday that payments he made to Haiti and Pakistan in 2010 were “charitable donations” and any attempt to use them as part of a reported ethics investigation was “cynical and unethical”. Responding to media reports that world soccer’s Read More
World
Former Street Kid Says Haiti Orphanage Founder Molested Him
DAVID SHARP, Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An orphan who grew up on the streets of Haiti, Daniel Madrigal said he was grateful to find food, clean clothes and shelter at St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in Port-au-Prince. But he says the orphanage founder who Read More
World
Humanitarian Crisis Looms Large in Haiti as the Dominican Republic
By Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News As the international community raise the alarm about the “awful” impact of the Dominican Republic’s “inhumane” scheme to deport hundreds of thousands Haitians, calls for economic sanctions against the DR are gathering Read More
Op-Ed
Haitians in the Dominican Republic Risk Becoming Stateless
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Racism is flaring its ugly head again on the island of Hispaniola, a Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. For decades, thousands of Haitians have crossed over into the more affluent Dominican Republic to seek better Read More
World
Key Issues on Caricom Agenda Include Reparations, Venezuela, Guyana
By Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Three key issues will attract the attention of Caribbean trade bloc leaders when they meet for three days at one of their two most important annual summits in Barbados starting Thursday. Officials Read More
World
For Haiti, Relief Will Come in the Long Term
By Safiya Mann Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti, taking more than 230,000 lives and displacing over 1 million people, causing a massive housing crisis. Compounding the emergency situation were confusion Read More
World
The Dominican Time Bomb
(New York Times) – In early 2006, my first long-term overseas posting as a journalist took me to the Dominican Republic. From my new home in Santo Domingo, I planned to write about tourism, baseball, corruption and drug trafficking, while working on my Spanish. If Read More
World
Dominican Republic’s ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A Dominican Republic court order threatens to force more than 200,000 Dominican-born Haitians from their homes in an effort that many human rights watchers have called modern-day ethnic cleansing. Just days after the Rachel Dolezal Read More
World
A Haitian Border Town Struggles with New Rules in the Dominican Republic
(The Washington Post) — Several mornings a week for the past five years, Smith Laflur has left his one-room cinder-block shack, walked past the stray goats and the sour cherry tree, down the quiet dirt lanes and out into the shouts and motorcycle roar of this clamoring Read More
World
Thousands Woke Up At Risk Of Deportation In The Dominican Republic. Almost All Of Them Are Black.
Roque Planas, Julia Craven, THE HUFFINGTON POST SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (The Huffington Post) — At 74, Yampié Calleins’ yellowing, muscular hands now tremble when raising something as light as a piece of paper — the result of a life spent swinging a Read More
World
Haitian Workers Facing Deportation by Dominican Neighbors
MEXICO CITY (New York Times) — Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are facing deportation from the Dominican Republic, the latest in a series of actions by the government that have cast a light on the country’s long-troubled relationship with its Haitian neighbors. Undocumented workers in Read More
World
Haitians Scramble for Legal Residency in Dominican Republic
EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ, Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Haitians and other non-citizens stood in long lines across the Dominican Republic on Monday in last-minute bids to secure legal residency, hurrying to beat a looming paperwork deadline along with the threat of possible Read More
World
We Regret to Inform You That in 4 Days You and Your Family Will Be Deported to Haiti
Greg Grandin, THE NATION (The Nation) — Last week, I wrote that the Dominican Republic has summarily stripped over a hundred thousand Dominicans born in the DR of Haitian parents of their citizenship and is threatening to deport them to Haiti. And though Read More
World
How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes
(ProPublica) – The neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash that goes forever uncollected. Children kick a deflated volleyball in a dusty lot below a wall with a hand-painted logo of the American Red Cross. In Read More
World
Cheap Motorbikes Bring Opportunity and Chaos to Haiti
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Joseph-Marc Carel knows the danger of ferrying passengers on his small motorbike, sometimes two at a time, as tides of the buzzing vehicles cut through the chaotic Haitian capital. He has a prosthetic leg to prove it. Read More
World
The King and Queen of Haiti
(Politico) – Sunday, January 30, 2011. Two hundred thousand people occupied Egypt’s Tahrir Square, defying a military curfew to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Tunisia’s authoritarian leader had just been overthrown, unleashing a wave of anti-government protests from Yemen to Syria to Read More
World
21 People Found Drowned Off Haiti’s North Coast, 17 Missing
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 21 people have died and 17 others are missing in a suspected boat capsizing off Haiti’s northern coast, authorities said Thursday. The group was among 50 believed to be aboard a boat that was headed Read More
World
Haitian President Tightens Grip as Scandal Engulfs Circle of Friends
Frances Robles, THE NEW YORK TIMES PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (The New York Times)— With a brisk clap of his hands, Michel Martelly summed up the first steps he would take if he ever left the music business and became the president of Haiti. “First thing, after Read More
World
Thousands March in Haiti Over Dominican Racism
(Miami Herald) – Two weeks after a Haitian man was lynched in the Dominican Republic, thousands marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, demanding justice and denouncing rising anti-Haitian sentiment in the neighboring Spanish-speaking country. “Despite our diversity, despite our differences, we are Read More
World
Haitians’ ‘Brazilian Dream’ Sours as Work Hard to Find
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Under a scorching sun, dozens of Haitians shuffled impatiently about the brick-walled courtyard of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. The sight of an approaching employer sparked a skirmish, with the men pushing against each other, Read More
World
Thousands Attend Funeral in Haiti for 17 Carnival Victims
Evens Sanon, ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of people streamed into Haiti’s main public park on Saturday to honor the 17 victims who died in an accident involving a Carnival float. Many mourners wore white T-shirts with a phrase in Creole that Read More
World
Float Accident at Haiti Carnival Parade Kills At Least 16
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 16 people were killed early Tuesday in the Haitian capital after a man on top of a musical group’s Carnival float was shocked by high-voltage wires above the street, setting off a panic in which Read More
World
Haiti’s New Prime Minister Faces Instability, Protests
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has a new prime minister as it enters a phase of political uncertainty, with its parliament dissolved, opposition activists promising intensified street protests and its president ruling by decree because of a bitter standoff with lawmakers. Read More
World
Somber Gatherings Mark 5th Anniversary of Haiti Earthquake
DAVID MCFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On crowded streets where fragile concrete homes collapsed and anguished people searched through rubble for loved ones, Haitians paused to remember the devastating January 2010 earthquake that shattered much of the teeming capital and surrounding area. At Read More
World
Mournful Gatherings Mark 5th Anniversary of Haiti Earthquake
David McFadden, ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Somber Haitians gathered early Monday to remember the devastating January 2010 earthquake that left much of the capital and surrounding area in ruins in one of the worst natural disasters of modern times. Hundreds of people, Read More
World
5 Years After Quake, Haiti Still on Shaky Ground
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (USA Today) — After the earthquake swallowed his home and after three years living inside a tent with his wife and two children, Josué Lacrète finally found some peace. His family is one of 156 chosen to escape the horrific tent Read More
World
Obama Admin. to Allow Thousands of Haitians Into U.S. Without Visas
(The Washington Times) – The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the Obama administration to task Friday for its “irresponsible” plan to allow as many as 100,000 Haitians to immigrate to the U.S. without a visa. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said the Read More
World
Haiti Bids Farewell to Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier
Jacqueline Charles, THE MIAMI HERALD PORT-AU-PRINCE (The Miami Herald)— Haitians said farewell Saturday to former President-for-life Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier in a simple Catholic Mass that had no official State presence except for a blue and red Haitian flag that draped his coffin. The flag Read More
World
Lawyer: Haiti Won’t Hold ‘Baby Doc’ State Funeral
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier will not get a formal state funeral, his attorney said Thursday. Duvalier, the self-designated “president-for-life” who died Saturday from an apparent heart attack, will have a “simple, private” funeral arranged by friends and Read More
World
Soccer Stars Decorate Haiti’s Minibuses
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The brightly painted Haitian minibuses known as tap-taps are getting even more colorful in the lead-up to the World Cup. Although their national team did not qualify for this year’s World Cup in Brazil, Haitians are fervent soccer fans and Read More
World
Drought in Haiti Ravages Crops for Farmers
TRENTON DANIEL, Associated Press BOMBARDOPOLIS, Haiti (AP) — Jean-Romain Beltinor plunged a hoe into the rocky dirt on his parched hillside to prepare for planting seeds he does not have. After months of drought in northwest Haiti, the subsistence farmer struggles to find food for Read More
World
Haitians Asking the Obama Administration to Allow Federal Suits Against United Nations
Victims of the 2010 cholera epidemic should get their day in New York federal courts and ultimately be compensated for pain and suffering caused by UN troops by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News A legal battle is looming Read More
Op-Ed
Can the Dominican Republic and Haiti Resolve Citizenship Dispute?
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Haiti and the Dominican Republic are locked in negotiations aimed at resolving a dispute that potentially has hemispheric implications. This all revolves around a court decision last September in the Dominican Republic that retroactively stripped thousands of their Read More
Religion
Thousands at Religious Summit in Haiti
BOIS-NEUF, Haiti (AP) — The Christian pilgrims crowded a barren mountainside in central Haiti by the thousands, seeking favors and spiritual renewal. Organized over the weekend by Our Lady of Fatima Bible Center, the three-day summit was among the largest of its kind in the Read More
World
Congress and Haiti Funds: Where is the Money?
by Khorri Atkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Haiti Needs Us Four years ago, when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake damaged Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, many countries, including the United States, pledged large sums of money to assist with rescue, recovery and Read More
World
Reparations: Pros and Cons of an International Case Before World Court
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News Even before the first legal briefs have been filed in a British or World Court seeking reparations for slavery in 14 Caribbean island nations, legal luminaries are squaring off publicly. And the Read More
Op-Ed
1885 Haitian Book Predicted a Black U.S. President
By Gershom Williams NNPA Guest Columnist Perhaps because Antenor Firmin wrote in French and not English, or perhaps because he was Haitian and not French, his work was ignored, became obscure and was out of print even in Haiti until 1968. -Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban Professor Read More
