Haiti
Haitian Government Tries to Return to Normal after Protests
Port of Prince, Nov 26. The Haitian government announced that it is taking all necessary measures to resume today the activities, after a week of protests and
Kwame Kwei-Armah To Adapt Haitian Revolution Story For TV With Foz Allan’s Bryncoed
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of London’s Young Vic, is to adapt the story of the Haitian Revolution after Bryncoed Productions optioned C L R James’ The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Continue reading
Haitian-American Rep. Mia Love Criticizes Trump In Scathing Concession Speech
Days after losing her re-election bid in deep red Utah, Representative Mia Love, the only black Republican woman in Congress, condemned President Trump on Monday in a scathing concession speech, describing him as having “no real relationships, just convenient transactions.” Continue reading
Immigration
Chile Sends Planeload Of Haitians Home, With Return Stop For Chileans In Venezuela
Chile is returning a second planeload of Haitian immigrants to their native country on Monday and will make use of the return flight from the Caribbean island to bring home Chileans stranded in crisis-stricken Venezuela. Continue reading
New York
The Calculations: 5,000 Haitians In New York Wrestle With Their Future
She waited for fourteen hours to be rescued from under the rubble of her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the earthquake. She waited eight months after that for her school to reopen, before moving to New York to continue her education. She waited for nine months after that to be told that yes, she was eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and so yes, she could stay. Continue reading