By Safiya Mann Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti, taking more than...
(New York Times) – In early 2006, my first long-term overseas posting as a journalist took me to the Dominican Republic. From my new home in...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A Dominican Republic court order threatens to force more than 200,000 Dominican-born Haitians from their homes...
(The Washington Post) — Several mornings a week for the past five years, Smith Laflur has left his one-room cinder-block shack, walked past the stray goats and the...
Roque Planas, Julia Craven, THE HUFFINGTON POST SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (The Huffington Post) — At 74, Yampié Calleins’ yellowing, muscular hands now tremble...
MEXICO CITY (New York Times) — Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are facing deportation from the Dominican Republic, the latest in a series of actions by...
MEXICO CITY (New York Times) — Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are facing deportation from the Dominican Republic, the latest in a series of actions by...
EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ, Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Haitians and other non-citizens stood in long lines across the Dominican Republic on Monday in...
EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ, Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Haitians and other non-citizens stood in long lines across the Dominican Republic on Monday in...
Greg Grandin, THE NATION (The Nation) — Last week, I wrote that the Dominican Republic has summarily stripped over a hundred thousand Dominicans born...
(ProPublica) – The neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash that goes forever uncollected. Children kick a...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Joseph-Marc Carel knows the danger of ferrying passengers on his small motorbike, sometimes two at a time, as...
(Politico) – Sunday, January 30, 2011. Two hundred thousand people occupied Egypt’s Tahrir Square, defying a military curfew to demand the ouster of President Hosni...
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 21 people have died and 17 others are missing in a suspected boat capsizing off Haiti’s...
Frances Robles, THE NEW YORK TIMES PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (The New York Times)— With a brisk clap of his hands, Michel Martelly summed up the first steps...
(Miami Herald) – Two weeks after a Haitian man was lynched in the Dominican Republic, thousands marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, demanding...
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Under a scorching sun, dozens of Haitians shuffled impatiently about the brick-walled courtyard of Our Lady of...
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Under a scorching sun, dozens of Haitians shuffled impatiently about the brick-walled courtyard of Our Lady of...
Evens Sanon, ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of people streamed into Haiti’s main public park on Saturday to honor the 17 victims who...
Evens Sanon, ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of people streamed into Haiti’s main public park on Saturday to honor the 17 victims who...
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 16 people were killed early Tuesday in the Haitian capital after a man on top of...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has a new prime minister as it enters a phase of political uncertainty, with its parliament dissolved,...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has a new prime minister as it enters a phase of political uncertainty, with its parliament dissolved,...
DAVID MCFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On crowded streets where fragile concrete homes collapsed and anguished people searched through rubble for loved ones, Haitians...
David McFadden, ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Somber Haitians gathered early Monday to remember the devastating January 2010 earthquake that left much of the...