haiti
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At Least 12 Dead, 100 Injured After Haiti Rocked By Earthquake
At least 12 people are dead and more than 100 people are injured after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the northwest region of the island nation Sunday. The Miami Herald reports that Haiti officials expect the death toll to rise and disaster relief teams have been dispatched to affected areas. The earthquake occurred about 12 miles…
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As Haiti Burns, Never Forget: White People Did That
On Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti warned American citizens, volunteers and missionaries in Haiti to stay in place and hunker down after angry demonstrators attempted to get past a barricade and security guards at a Port-au-Prince hotel. CNN reports that American Airlines, JetBlue and the Spirit Airlines (whose official slogan is: “We’re like a…
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I Am Kréyol: A Haitian-American Fashion Brand Hopes to Give Back to Its Homeland
As natural disasters have repeatedly devastated and decimated the Caribbean over the past decade, perhaps nowhere has been harder hit than Haiti. In 2010 the country—already considered the poorest in the Western Hemisphere—was all but destroyed by an earthquake estimated to be between 7.1 and 7.3 magnitude in strength. By 2016 it had still yet…
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Black, Brown Nations Long Dissed by Media
Trump’s Targets Strike Back, at Home and Abroad West’s Wealth Came From Places Trump Slandered. . . ‘Not Just Racist, but Inaccurate’ Haitian-American Anchor: It Was ‘Mean,’ ‘Racist’ Who’s Reporting the Thinking Behind the Racism? Press-Freedom Monitors Visiting U.S. Writer Sees ‘Five Decades of White Backlash’ Tale of Bad Date With Aziz Ansari Stirs Debate…
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The Day It Became Easier to Say He’s Racist
The three television network evening news programs led Thursday with President Trump’s reported statement calling Haiti, El Salvador and African nations “shithole” countries and saying the United States should instead bring more people from countries such as Norway. From there the outrage grew in online commentary, in print and on cable talk shows, as well…
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Haiti, Botswana and Other Alleged ‘Shithole’ Countries Clap Back at ‘President’ Trump
The “shithole” countries that the “president” of the United States disparaged during an Oval Office meeting Thursday would love someone from the administration to say that shit to their face appreciate some clarification of Donald Trump’s explicitly racist and incendiary comments. To recap for everyone just emerging from rocks, boulders or other similarly heavy and…
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Your Racist President Said Haitians ‘All Have AIDS’ and Nigerians Live in ‘Huts’
All the “debate” about whether Donald Trump is really, truly racist should be put to rest now. The man actually opened his mouth in public—as president of the United States—and fixed his flat lips to say that “all Haitians have AIDS and Nigerians live in huts. The New York Times recently published a report about…
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The Glow Up Gaze: Mama Cax Is Redefining the Runway
When you meet model, blogger and advocate Mama Cax—Cax, for short—you’re not sure where to look first: at her gleaming brown skin and bald head, her sculpted features, whatever ridiculously sick ensemble she’s put together just to tool around town or her equally stylized prosthetic leg cover (one of 15 she owns)—a latticework of metal…
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Virginia Man in Custody for Sexual Molestation of at Least 21 Haitian Children
Yet another pedophile has been arrested for molesting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. This time it was a “missionary” from Virginia who was taken into federal custody after admitting to sexual contact with young boys in Haiti, with one as young as 5 years old. James Arbaugh of Stuarts Draft, Va., was reported to…
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With Trump Revoking Temporary Protected Status, Haitians Fear for the Future and Their Lives
Since 2010, thousands of Haitian immigrants who migrated to the United States have been allowed to stay in the country without fear because President Barack Obama granted Haiti eligibility for Temporary Protected Status. The protection is given to countries that have experienced political or environmental catastrophe such as armed conflict or natural disaster. But the…