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    1. House Passes Lee Bill To Support US - Caribbean Educational Exchange

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    Aug 2-Aug 8, 2007
    Published:
    Laurelton, NY
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Culvert Chronicles
    Journal Title Details:
    29 : 18
    Notes:
    [Barbara Lee]'s bill would establish a U.S.Caribbean educational exchange program for high school, undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars through the State Department. It would also enable the U.S. Agencjrfbr International Development (USAID) to develop a regional strategy to expand existing early education initiatives, and would allow both State Department and USAID to use public-private partnerships to implement the program.

    2. Stand and be counted: U.S. Congress receives historic Caribbean census bill

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    May 2009
    Published:
    Miami, FL
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Today
    Journal Title Details:
    6 : 7
    Notes:
    The Clarke bill calls for all questionnaires "used in the taking of any decennial census of the U.S. population, to include a checkbox or other similar option so that respondents may indicate Caribbean extraction or descent". "In conducting the 2010 decennial census and every decennial census thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall include, in any questionnaire distributed or otherwise used for the purpose of determining the total population by states, a checkbox or other similar option by which respondents may indicate Caribbean extraction or descent", states the bill. [Felicia Persaud] said the Clarke bill gives the Caribbean community renewed impetus to ensure they lobby around this cause and most importantly, fill out and return the 2010 Census form, especially by writing in their country of origin under Question 8. The origin's category is not an ethnic category so this will not divide the black or Asian or any other ethnic group that may perceive this as a 'divide and rule' strategy, Persaud added.