Collection: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) / Subject Term: Blacks and Haiti / Journal Title: Oakland Post

Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Subject Term Blacks Subject Term Haiti Journal Title Oakland Post

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 23-Mar 1, 2011
Published:: Oakland, CA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Oakland Post
Journal Title Details:: 34 : 1-1,12
Notes:: The letter expresses gratitude to the South African government, and people of South Africa, for hosting the Airistides. "We also heartily support the efforts of the South African government to assist President [Jean-Bertrand Aristide] and his family in quickly returning home," the signers state, noting that "Any delays to the Airistides' prompt travel to Haiti would be yet another disappointment to a people that have already experienced a long list of tragedies, disasters, and heartbreak."

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2003-08-27
Published:: Oakland, CA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Oakland Post
Journal Title Details:: 23 : 5
Notes:: The first Africans came to America in August, so obviously, it's our entire history - in so far as the celebration or acknowledgement was. It has to do with [Jonathan Jackson], George Jackson and prisons. I believe in a time when the United States has more people in prison than any other industrialized nation, the prediction that if the current rate of incarceration stays the way it is now, one in three men will be incarcerated or on parole in 2020, which is not very far. I think it is contingent on us to look at that - the re-enslavement of African Americans continuing. I think this benefit for Haiti is important, because of what Haiti represents - a nearby island that had a successful slave rebellion, it has always suffered from intrusions from America from as far back as the 1800s, so I think joining together the national and international struggles is important. It is important for African Americans to look at themselves locally, nationally and internationally - to see ourselves in the world. Black August 2003 offers an opportunity to do that.

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