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Preview of “Treme,” Fifth Episode: “Shame, Shame, Shame”

• May 8, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Cultural History, Drama, Homelessness, Hurricanes, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Treme", African Americans, Blacks, Cable, Community, Disaster, Drama, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Survivors, Hurricanes, Katrina, Musicians, New Orleans, New Orleans LA, New Orleans Police Department, Picking Up the Pieces, Preview, Rebuilding, Republicans, TV Series

Gimme Shelter: An 8.8 Earthquake Jars Chile, But the Rains Are Closing In on Haiti

• March 1, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, Class, Haiti, History, Hurricanes, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, The Clintons, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: Aristide, Chile, Chileans, Concepcion, Fanmi Lavalas, Flooding, Free Trade, General Augusto Pinochet, Haiti, Hunger, Hurricanes, Infectious Diseases, Infrastructure, Interim Cooperation Framework, Large Shelters, Medicine, Neo-Colonialism, Occupation, Pétionville, Pinochet, Port au Prince, President Bill Clinton, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President Michelle Bachelet, President Sebastian Piñera, Preval, Rainy Season, Santiago, Scavenging, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Terrorism, Sweatshop, Tourism, U.N. Secretary Ban Ki Moon, U.S. Geological Survey, USAID, World Bank

President Obama Explains “Why Haiti Matters” in Newsweek

• January 17, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in American Foreign Policy, Bailouts, Black People, Class, Crime, Cuba, Education, Haiti, Health, History, HIV Positive, Homelessness, Hurricanes, Joblessness, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, Subprime Loans-Foreclosures, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Stimulus Bill
Tags: Artibonite Valley, Ayiti, Barack Obama, Blacks, Castro, Creoles, Dirt, Fair-Skinned, Fidel Castro, Floods, François Duvalier, Globalization, Haiti, Haitians, HIV Virus, Hurricanes, Immigration, Intestinal Parasites, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Katrina, Leftist, Light-Skinned, Malaria, Mudcakes, Mudslides, President Aristide, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Roosevelt Administration, The Black Republic, The Caribbean, The Nineties, Tourist Trap, Tuberculosis

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