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2. Flood money; Haitian hero Wyclef comes to aid of storm-lashed islanders
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Clunis,Andrew (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 20-Dec 26, 2004
- Published:
- London, UK
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Voice
- Journal Title Details:
- 1145 : 3
- Notes:
- "Gonaives... my heart is being torn apart, too many mothers have lost too many children," [Wyclef] sings in Creole, while distributing WFP food rations. "We wanted to capture the raw essence of Gonaives and give people inspiration. Not like: 'Be sad for us,' but asking how can we as people really help Gonaives," he said.
3. No Bigger Challenge Facing the Global Community
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Daniels,Ron (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 8-Apr 14, 2010
- Published:
- Nashville, TN
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Tennessee Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- 14 : 6A
- Notes:
- Obviously, Haitians in the country and the Haitian Diaspora must play the leading roles in rebuilding the nation. Therefore, it is not surprising that there was a flurry of meetings and conferences leading up to the major UN Donor's Conference where Haiti presented its Development Plan. The OAS convened a major meeting in Washington March 21-23 to secure the input of the Haitian Diaspora and Haiti experts. March 26-27, I was privileged to attend the conference convened by the Trotter Institute, the National Haitian American Elected Officials Network (NHAEON) and the Haitian Studies Project at the University of Massachusetts/ Boston. Organized ground the theme: Haitians Building Haiti: Towards Transparent and Accountable Development, it was an incredibly well designed and facilitated conference. I was very impressed by the genuine effort to create an environment where views of the community and the conferees could be heard on the critical issues of the principles and strategies which should guide the reconstruction process. In that regard, the sessions were profoundly enriched by the participation of leading organizations from civil society who traveled to the conference from Haiti. A recurrent refrain from these organizations was deep concern that their voices and those of grassroots organizations on the ground were not part of the process when the Government formulated the Plan that was presented at the Donor's conference. There was a sense of anger and frustration that the Plan appears to be a fait accompli without widespread engagement of the Haitian people. To his credit President [Preval] has shown a remarkable capacity to bring people from divergent political parties into his Government; indeed it is one of the unheralded achievements of his second tenure in office. Now his Government has the opportunity to utilize that attitude and posture of inclusion to conduct a National Dialogue that could become the hallmark of his presidency. The Donor Conference concluded with a pledge of $10 billion over the next four years to rebuild Haiti. If there is to be a new Haiti, however, no dollar amount will be sufficient to achieve that goal. What is required is a new way of tapping the energy of Haiti's greatest resource, its people. A National Dialogue on Building the New Haiti could give new meaning to L'Union Fait La Force in the 21st Century!
4. National Black McDonald's Operators Association Donates $100K to Red Cross
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Garth,William (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-04-07
- Published:
- Chicago, IL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Chicago Citizen
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 6
- Notes:
- The National Black McDonald's Operators Association (NBMOA) has announced a donation of $100,000 to the Red Cross for its ongoing Haiti relief efforts. The NBMOA consists of McDonald's African American franchise owners, who together raised the funds independent of corporate contributions. The group hopes that its contribution will help keep the focus on the ongoing needs to rebuild Haiti. The donation comes as the Red Cross and other groups continue to work on immediate relief needs in Haiti as well as plan for and implement years of rebuilding efforts following the massive earthquake that struck the country Jan. 12. Members of the NBMOA own more than 1,400 McDonald's restaurants throughout the United States with annual sales collectively exceeding $3.2 billion. The NBMOA also is one of the largest and most influential African American organizations in the United States.
5. Hatred without Hope
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gold,Herbert (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1965-04-24
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Saturday Evening Post
- Journal Title Details:
- 238 (8): 74-81
- Notes:
- Discusses the social conditions in Haiti in 1965. Prevalence of violence in the country; Disasters suffered by Haitians; Human rights violations committed by the government.
6. Biden honors Martin Luther King Jr. at FMU
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Harris,Renee Michelle (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 22-Jan 28, 2010
- Published:
- Coral Springs, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- South Florida Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 4 : 1B-1B,4B
- Notes:
- "I know he's looking down now on [President Obama] saying, 'Good job Barack, but you've got a lot more to do,'" said [Joseph Biden], who was introduced by the university's interim president, Sandra T. Thompson. "It's not merely the news reel, this is zeal," he said of the earthquake's impact on Haitian-Americans. "It's about their brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers." Of his visit to Miami's Haitian community, the vice president said his attempt to participate in an "off-the-record" visit to a church so that he could attend a Catholic Mass in Little Haiti resulted in Haitian-Americans demonstrating tremendous generosity, "even in the midst of their grief."
7. Local union pledges support for Haitian-Americans
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Heard,Kaila (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 21-May 27, 2010
- Published:
- Coral Springs, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- South Florida Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 21 : 1B-1B,2B
- Notes:
- While Local 355 will continue to accept support from organizations and the community at large for the new initiative in the upcoming months, one of its first actions will be to formally request that Broward County commissioners implement a "worker retention policy" to ensure that concession workers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport do not lose their jobs, even as their employers' contracts are being evaluated, [Jay Mehta] said. "The survey shows us that the best way to express our solidarity is to...continue to fight," said UNITE HERE Local 355 organizer Romane Petit Joseph, referring to the union's original purpose, which includes working toward quality jobs, workers' rights, immigration reform and living wages.
8. Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Johnson,Sherry (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 306 p., Weather-induced environmental crises and slow responses from imperial authorities, Johnson argues, played an inextricable and, until now, largely unacknowledged role in the rise of revolutionary sentiments in the 18th century Caribbean.
9. Black History Month: What about Haiti?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Key,James (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 10-Feb 16, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 24 : 9
- Notes:
- In this context, the achievements of yesterday and of today are intimately linked. Sojourner Truth thundered against slavery so that Frederick Douglass could agitate. Douglass agitated so that Thurgood Marshall could argue the law. Marshall argued so that Rosa Parks could sit. Parks sat so that Martin Luther King Jr. could stand. King stood so that young people could march. Young people marched so that Shirley Chisholm could dare to aim for Congress. Rep. Chisholm dared so that Jesse Jackson could run. Jackson ran so Barack Obama could win. And Obama won because a majority of voting Americans - red, yellow, brown, black and white - were ready to finally say: Yes, we can!
10. Extinction and survival in human populations
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Laughlin,Charles D. (Author) and Brady,Ivan A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1978
- Published:
- New York: Columbia University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 327 p, Includes Robert Dirks' "Resource fluctuations and competitive transformations in West Indian slave societies," pp. 122-180;