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A Guide To New Orleans and All Its Jazz

Dwight Brown | Posted 05.03.2013 | Travel
Read More: New Orleans, Beef, Dessert, Travel, Festival, Blues, Film, Music, Tennis, Cuisine, Rivers, Hotels, John Mayer, Golf, Louisiana, Jazz, Museums, Restaurants, Arts, Ghosts, Food, Vacation, Jill Scott, Boats, Slidepollajax, Cities, Creole, Travel News
Dwight Brown

Yes New Orleans, Louisiana is steeped in history, culture, fine arts and friendly gregarious people. And all those ingredients seem to peak every Apr...

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Haitian Schools Expand Use Of Creole Language

AP | TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 02.06.2013 | World
Read More: Haiti Schools, Haiti Earthquake, Haitian Creole, Haiti, Haiti Relief Efforts, Help-Haiti-Schools, Creole Language, Creole, Haiti School System, World News

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti -- Teenagers in blue-and-white uniforms pour out of classrooms of this boarding school at the edge of Haiti's capital, chatt...

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WATCH: Inside New Orleans' Giant Music Box

Smithsonian | Posted 09.22.2012 | Travel
Read More: New Orleans, Travel, Shantytown, Music, Roadtrip, Creole, Culture, New Orleans Travel, Louisiana, Louisiana Travel, Destinations, US Destinations, Travel News
Smithsonian

The unbelievably strange and beautiful music box shantytown sits in the historic Bywater section of town.

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A Peek into Blue Ivy Carter's Past

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 03.13.2012 | Celebrity
Read More: French, Louisiana, Beyonce, Creole, Celebrity Kids, Barack Obama, Katy Perry, Cajun, Ancestry, Genealogy, Jay-Z, Barry Manilow, Ireland, Blue Ivy Carter, Family History, Acadian, Celebrity News
Megan Smolenyak

She's not even a week old, so the newborn daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z doesn't have a past yet -- except in the genealogical sense.

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St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island

Dwight Brown | Posted 08.19.2011 | Travel
Read More: Hiking, Rain Forests, Caribbean, Parrot, Luxury Travel, Travel, Tennis, Mountains, Cuisine, Culture, Hotels, History, Golf, Massage, Resort, Luxury, Beaches, Nobel Laureate, Food, Vacation, Massage Therapy, Creole, Volcano, Spas, African-Caribbeans, Travel News
Dwight Brown

St. Lucia is an earthly, verdant, mountainous paradise perfect for exploration and vacations.

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Po' Boys & The Hope Diamond Of Chicken Sandwiches

Josh Ozersky | Posted 06.04.2011 | Home
Read More: Manhattan, Les, Po Boy, New Orleans, Chinatown, New York City, Oysters, La, Sandwich, Josh Ozersky, Lower East Side, Cheeky Sandwiches, Chicken, Louisiana, Nyc, Orchard Street, Biscut, Shrimp, Cajun, Ny, Creole, Home News
Josh Ozersky

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Disaster: A Serious Game

Amanda Lin Costa | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Nadine Pequeneza, Red Cross, Survivor, Creole, Inside the Haiti Earthquake, Interactive Web, Documentary, The Lone Olive, Fixer, Flash, Port-Au-Prince, Aid Workers, Falaune Louis Jacques, Journey to the End of Coal, Serious Games, Michael Gibson, Katie McKenna, Haiti Earthquake, Inside Disaster, Nicolas Jolliet, Zap, World News
Amanda Lin Costa

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Open Hearts, Open Homes

Amanda Lin Costa | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Oyis, Mama V, Haiti Earthquake, Red Cross, Hosting, Haiti, The Lone Olive, Momma V, Usns Comfort, Medical Mission, Angel Missions Haiti, Creole, Sondra Daroshefski, Impact News
Amanda Lin Costa

Sometimes the most basic ideas are not in our heads until someone plants them there. Obviously many children were injured in the earthquake in Hait...

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"I Used To Love The Rain" And Other New Fears Of Haitian Children

Edwidge Danticat | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Slidepollajax, Haitian Books, Kids Books, Charity, Children's Books, Service, Port Au Prince, Haiti, Earthquake Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Port-Au-Prince, Danticat, Edwidge Danticat, Eight Days, Creole, Books News
Edwidge Danticat

Last week, I had the honor of traveling to Port-au-Prince and reading to a group of these children "Eight Days," a picture book I wrote about the earthquake in Haiti.

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Franketienne: Haiti's First Nobel Laureate - Hopefully

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Marcel Duret, French, Voodoo, Unesco, Mario Benjamin, Emmelie Prophete, The Trap, Environmental Disaster, Literature, Sado-Masochism, Andre Breton, Gran Makout, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia, Memoire D'encrier, Jim Luce, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, CUNY Graduate Center, Chaos Theory, Haitian-Americans, Abstract Work, Tragic Clown, Thought Leader, Apocalypse, Baron Samedi, Artist for Peace, Surrealism, Carlton University, Rachel Douglas, Japan, Papa Doc, Cultural Area Studies, Vodou Pantheon, Nobel Prize, Noble Laureate, Ile en Ile, Thomas Spear, Brooklyn Public Library, University of Liverpool, Earthquake, Poetry, Kaiama L. Glover, Intellectual, Giulietta Masina, Kabuki, Creole, Galaxie Chaos-Babel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, City College of New York, Author, Seanna Sumalee Oakle, Stewardship Report, Evens Anozine, Jlsr, Marie Coron, Port-Au-Prince, Vodou Priest, University of Nebraska, Baby Doc, Luce Index, Emmanuel Duogene, Duvalier Regime, University of Maryland, Alvina Ruprecht, Stanford L. Luce, Lewdness, Beatrice Coron, Artist, Death, Alessandra Benedicty, Haiti, New York City, France, Columbia University, Caribbean, Franck Etienne, Playwright, Painter, Global Citizen, Flowers of Insomnia, Mary Cobb Wittrock, January 12, Musician, Guede, Franketienne, Melovivi, Wordplay, Scatologu, Arts News
Jim Luce

As a cultural area studies graduate, seldom do I feel over my head culturally. Standing in the home of possibly the next Nobel Prize recipient for Li...

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New Orleans' Rebuilding: An Inspiration

Wyclef Jean | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Creole, Haiti, Wyclef Jean, Impact News
Wyclef Jean

New Orleans is still in the process of reviving, and on the 5th anniversary, there are many great plans for people to come together to rebuild where it's still needed. I'm inspired by the scores of people who have stepped in -- it gives me hope for Haiti.

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Haiti: Trip to the Moon

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Kreyol, Feliks Moriso-Lewa, Creole, Poetry, Haiti, Félix Morisseau-Leroy, World News
Crossover Dreams

by Peter Costantini ~ Seattle When I was in Miami in 2004 to cover the elections, I had dinner in a Haitian restaurant in Miami Beach called Tap-Tap....

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Live Report: Tremendous Progress Accomplished in Six Short Haitian Days

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: We Can?T Have That Foundation, Europe, Colonel Wasantha Herath, Ravi Singh, Beijing, United Nations, Leogane, Kenneth H. Merten, Cooperative Solidarite Pour Le Developpement, Asia, Creole, Santos Alexis, Ngo, Khalsa Aid, Kona Shen, Jim Luce, Orphans, Academic Scholarships, Brown University, Minutsah, Evans Anozine, Service Oecumenique D?Entraide, Miami, Orphans International Worldwide Haiti, IDP Camp, Morgan Freeman, Canadian Navy, Skype, Ecole Primeraire La Redemption, Haiti, New York City, Haitian-American Engineers Association, Nouveu College Surin Eveillard, Internet, India, Richard Bercy, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Earthquake Recovery, Orphans International Worldwide, World News
Jim Luce

Today was the beginning of the end of our six short days in Haiti to set the stage for post-disaster recovery here. April 1 officially begins the nex...

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Live Report: No Spiders to Bite Me in My Pre-Dawn Haitian Shower

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Radio Amikal, Orphans International Worldwide Haiti, Philippe Beauliere, Morgan Freeman, United Nations, Leogane, Jim Luce Stewardship Report, Idps, Thought Leaders, Creole, Global Citizens, International Rescue Committee, Dr. Tiffany Keenan, Evens Anozine, Jim Luce, Internet, Jean-Michel Tijerina, Ngos, CharityHelp International, Colline Academie, Jacmel, World News
Jim Luce

Up before sunset in post-disaster Haiti, showering in the outdoor latrine in the pitch dark, I trust there are no spiders, lizards, or snakes to bite ...

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Live from Leogane: Orphans International Partners with Haitian School Founded by Orphan

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Special Education Teachers, N.Y.U. Polytechnic Institute, Earthquake, Raising Global Citizens, Seth Louis Jacques, Philippe Beauliere, OIWW Global Standards, Masoud Ghandehari, York College, Brooklyn, Leogane, Mathew?S Rule, Skype, Queens, Connectivity, Creole, Child Psychologists, Volunteers, Haiti, France, Carl Skelton, Oiww, Rainy Season, Practicum Abroad, Haitian School, Haitian Orphan, Orphans International Worldwide, American School System, University of Quebec, Ecole De La Redemption, January 12, World News
Jim Luce

"My father, Ambroise Beauliere, wrote our school's mission statement forty years ago to provide private education at the best possible quality at the ...

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Why is Creole a Pariah?

Dyane Jean François | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Languages, Haitian Creole, Rene Preval, Creole, Haiti, World News
Dyane Jean François

To use French in an emergency situation in Haiti is like shouting exit instructions in English during a fire in a Georgia plant where 90 percent of the workers speak Spanish.

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University of Minnesota French Students Help Adopted Haitian Girls In School

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: French Students, Haiti Earthquake, Don Sperr, Haiti, Creole Translation, Islande Sperr, Tamela Sperr, Haiti Adoptions, Creole, Haiti Adoptive Parents, University of Minnesota, Auddy Sperr, Impact News

Two young Haitian girls, Auddy and Islande, were living in an orphanage waiting to be adopted by Minnesota couple Don and Tamela Sperr, when the Janua...

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Max Adrien, Haitian-born Professor, Gives Free Creole Lessons To Medical Workers Going To Haiti

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Haiti Medical Teams, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Creole Lessons, Max Adrien, Creole, Hamline University, Video, Impact News

When the January 12 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haitian-born Hamline University Professor Max Adrien immediately wanted to return to the country to...

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Notre Dame Offers Free Online Course in Haitian Language and Culture

Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Haiti Emergency, Haitian Culture, Karen Richman, Creole, Haiti Relief Efforts, Elephantiasis, Help Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Earthquake, Creole Language and Culture, Creole Culture, Center for Migration and Border Studies, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haitian Religion, Kreyòl Language, Institute for Latino Studies, Kreyòl Culture, Help Haiti, Vodou, Notre Dame, Haiti Relief, Support Haiti, Haitian History, Voodoo, Haiti Volunteer, Haiti, Haiti Disaster Relief, Disaster Relief, How to Help Haiti, Notre Dame Haiti Program, Disaster in Haiti, Migration and Vodou, Haiti Relief Organizations, Creole Language, University of Notre Dame, Léogâne, Opencourseware, Kreyòl, Impact News
Anne Dilenschneider

Notre Dame is offering Professor Karen Richman's "Creole Language and Culture" class as a free online course, recommended for anyone planning to participating in the Haitian relief effort.

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Haiti for the Long Haul: An Interview With TiGeorges

Tom McNalley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Minustah, Papa-Doc-Duvalier, Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Echo Park, Carrefour, TiGeorges Chicken, TiGeorges LaGuerre, Creole, Tigeorges, Los Angeles News
Tom McNalley

TiGeorges LaGuerre, the proprietor of TiGeorges Chicken: "People always say that Haiti is the poorest country this and that, but in cuisine we really take care of business."

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Haiti: The Literature From 'The New York Review Of Books'

The New York Review of Books | Madison Smartt Bell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Nyr, Kreyol, Edwidge Danticat, Madison Smartt Bell, Madison Smart Bell, Creole, Haiti, Danticat, Books News

'A Hidden Haitian World', Madison Smartt Bell The New York Review of Books Massacre River, by René Philoctète, translated from the French by Linda ...

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Africa's Herbal Answer To Viagra

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: African Medicine, San Antonio Principe, Herbal Medicine, Pausinystalia Yohimba, African Natural Remedies, Herbal Remedies, Africa, Viagra, Natural Remedies, Natural Medicine, Natural Food, Gulf of Guinea, Creole, World News

SAN ANTONIO, Principe �" Viagra is not needed on this island. For erectile dysfunction, herbal healers prescribe a bit of bark to heat until soft, c...

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