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Genius: a Talk With Edwidge Danticat

Martha St Jean | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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Martha St Jean

"When [my first novel] was just published, people walked up to me and told me that someone who worked at their house is Haitian," Danticat said. "Now there are a number of people telling me that their doctor is Haitian."

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Boat Carrying Haitian Migrants Capsizes, 113 Saved, 85 Missing

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Rescuers searched by sea and air Tuesday for nearly 70 Haitians after an overloaded sailboat ran aground and ...

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Stateless People Number Up To 15 Million People Worldwide (AUDIO)

WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Julia Harrington, Jews, Citizenship, Dominican Republic, Bill Berkeley, Ben Piven, Tutsi, Gaza, Dawn Calabia, Foreign Affairs, Palestine, Lisa Biagiotti, Adam Hussein Adam, Haitians, Stateless to Statehood, Barack Obama, Adam Hussein, Tune In, Roma, Human Rights, Samira Trad, Haiti, Statelessness, Tutsis, Weekly Webcast, Europe, Katie Combs, Stateless People, Advocacy, Nubians, Audio, World News

Imagine you have no birth certificate, no passport and no legal rights. You're trapped in the country where you were born, but no document indica...

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Bill Clinton, Haiti Envoy, Makes First Pitch For Troubled Nation

Miami Herald | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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Haiti's newest envoy made his first pitch on behalf of the impoverished Carribbean nation Monday, outlining an ambitious list of priorities he plans t...

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Haitian Remittances Decreasing With Economic Struggle (AUDIO SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post Contributors | Emily Feldman and Damiano Beltram | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Video, World News, Foreign Affairs, Economy, Haiti, Haitian Remittances, Slideshow, Haitian Americans, Haitian Immigrants, Haitians, Advocacy, World News

By Emily Feldman and Damiano Beltrami Gertha Brice shielded herself from the rain beneath a narrow awning in East Flatbush. Sunday services had just ...

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Haitian Boat Capsizing Kills 9; 16 Rescued

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

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MIAMI — Searchers racing to find more survivors from an overloaded boat that sank off Florida expanded their target area farther north over the ...

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Dirt Poor Haitians Eat Mud Cookies To Survive

WorldFocus | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

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The small island nation of Haiti relies heavily on food imports, but with prices soaring, some Haitians are resorting to eating mud. The cookies --...

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Haiti: Aristide, Ex-Rebel Barred From Senate Elections

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's electoral council has barred members of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's popular political party from r...

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Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 10.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Farm Workers, Dominican Republic, Pesticides, Cultivar, Cdh, Del Monte, Cede, Green Edge, Mexico, Incap, Pase, Nicaragua, State Department, Haitians, Tesco, Chiquita, Dole, San Francisco Chronicle, Fertilizers, Honduras, sa8000, U.S. Department of Labor, Usaid, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

The safety of U.S. food depends starts with the farms where our food is grown. Last month, congressional hearings on America's largest salmonella out...

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