Jun 03 What happened to Red Cross donations for Haiti? By Colleen Shalby Following a harrowing earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, the American Red Cross launched a project to raise funds to transform the area. Roughly $500 million was donated. But according to a new report from ProPublica and NPR, as it… Continue reading
Apr 09 Black immigrant population in U.S. expected to triple by 2060, study finds By Laura Santhanam The number of black immigrants living in the United States has nearly quadrupled since 1980 and is expected to continue to grow, according to a new report released today from the Pew Research Center. Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch 5:16 News Wrap: W.Va. investigating what caused explosive oil train accident By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 17 Carnival parade accident in Haiti kills at least 20 By News Desk A high-voltage cable that fell on a parade float in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday caused a stampede that killed at least 20 people on the second day of Carnival celebrations. Continue reading
Jan 14 Photo essay: Haiti’s earthquake victims wonder where the reconstruction money went By Joshua Barajas On Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake reduced the impoverished island country of Haiti to rubble, leaving 220,000 dead, another 300,000 injured, and more than a million homeless. Among those that survived also lost limbs to falling walls and… Continue reading
Oct 16 Why do donations to fight Ebola remain modest? By David Crary, Associated Press NEW YORK — Individual Americans, rich or not, donated generously in response to many recent international disasters, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and last year's Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The response to the Ebola epidemic is far less… Continue reading
Oct 04 Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier dies By Andrew Mach Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier died of a heart attack on Saturday, his lawyer said. He was 63. Continue reading
Jan 13 Watch 8:48 Haitians blame UN soldiers for cholera crisis in wake of earthquake disaster By PBS News Hour Three years ago in Haiti, as the country struggled to recover from a devastating earthquake, a river near a United Nations base was poisoned with cholera; hundreds of thousands of people have been infected. Inigo Gilmore of Independent Television News… Continue watching
Nov 26 Haitian migrant boat capsizes, up to 30 dead As many as 30 people may have died when Haitian migrant boat capsized off Bahamas - officials http://t.co/ceYSvgwHzS pic.twitter.com/bQWsjb5Jtd— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) November 26, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 09 UN sued over cholera epidemic among Haiti’s earthquake survivors A Hatian woman receives a vaccine for cholera.Photo by Jon Lascher A group of human rights lawyers are suing the U.N. on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have contracted cholera since the 2010 earthquake. The… Continue reading