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*NYC - Philly born/Brooklyn based singer/songwriter Candice Anitra has put the finishing touches to eagerly awaited sophomore project ‘Big Tree’ which sees a release on March 28th, 2012 world-wide. One of the songs off the danceable/soul endeavour was inspired by the devastating Earthquake in Haiti. The song “Today” marks 2 years later and addresses mother [...]
*Naomi Campbell is busy putting together another runway benefit for the charity “Fashion for Relief” – this time to aid the victims of Japan’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. The British supermodel – who opened a temporary “pop-up store” at London’s Westfield mall yesterday to benefit the charity – has previously organized a Fashion for Relief [...]
*Today marks the one year anniversary of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Roughly a million remain homeless amid the debris and stuttering reconstruction efforts in Port-au-Prince, according to the AP. A year later, nearly a million Haitians remain in tents or other temporary shelter. The death of so [...]
*In a column on the Huffington Post blog, Sean Penn explains in further detail his much-publicized opposition to Wyclef Jean’s presidential bid in Haiti, which was rejected last week by the electoral commission. Titled “Third Person Once Removed,” Penn – who relocated to Haiti two months after the January earthquake to assist relief efforts – [...]
*Spike Lee was in New Orleans Tuesday to screen parts one and four of his new four-part HBO documentary “If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise,” a follow-up to his acclaimed four-part series “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Premiering Aug. [...]
*Rapper-turned-presidential candidate Wyclef Jean has fired back at Sean Penn after the actor criticized his decision to run as president of Haiti, insisting he has “sweat blood” for his native country. The former Fugees star launched his official bid for office on Thursday, vowing to help turn around Haiti’s fortunes following the devastating earthquake which [...]
*Wyclef Jean has written an article in the Wall Street Journal defending his decision to run for the presidency of Haiti. “While I don’t pretend to be a miracle worker, I wholeheartedly believe that at this important time in Haiti’s history, I am the right person to put the country on the road to the [...]
*Accompanied by his wife and 5-year-old daughter, rapper/musician Wyclef Jean has submitted the necessary paperwork to run for president in his native Haiti. The potential front-runner in Haiti’s Nov. 28 election held a rally in capital Port-au-Prince to announce his candidacy, and spoke with the Associated Press about his vision for the impoverished nation he [...]
*Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, is building factories in Haiti that will produce materials to help houses withstand earthquakes and hurricanes. A press release says the two factories will manufacture earthquake-and hurricane-resistant panels for housing in the earthquake-ravaged capital of Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien. Johnson announced the project Wednesday during a visit [...]
*Christina Aguilera raised is doing her due diligence for humanity and raised some money for Haiti victims. She signed and auctioned off a 2010 Chrysler 300 Eco Style Edition car with Stars for a Cause. The charity donated funds to the United Nations World Food Program, which is currently aiding relief efforts in Haiti. Aguilera’s [...]
*The Haitian government has released an incredible video taken from the closed-circuit security cameras in the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince. It shows people desperately looking for cover as the palace crumbles and collapses around them: If watching it isn’t enough remind you of the enormity of the situation, these statistics, via mediaite.com, should: Two months [...]
*Speaking to press ahead of his scheduled performance at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Puerto Rico, Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean said Haiti’s government and non-profit organizations need to focus its efforts toward education to help the country move forward from the earthquake. “If we’re going to get to the 21st century, I don’t know [...]
*Relief officials in Port-au-Prince have changed tack and are urging Haiti’s earthquake homeless to return to their destroyed neighborhoods as the rainy season fast approaches. Officials had initially planned to build big camps outside Port-au-Prince. They still anticipate creating some settlements, but they decided this week to instead emphasize getting people to pack up their [...]
*In Port-Au-Prince (Haiti), Gina Pierre was laid on her back in the dusty tent, crying out in pain and clenching her older sister’s hand. She was about to give birth to triplets. Two days earlier, the concrete walls of Pierre’s home had collapsed around her. Now, there was no place to deliver her babies [...]
*Eight U.S. missionaries who were detained for almost three weeks in Haiti on child kidnapping charges arrived in Miami, Florida, late Wednesday night after a judge ordered them freed. The group arrived at Miami International Airport on a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane from the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. “It feels great for him to [...]
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