Word: haitian-american
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...Haitian-American Gerdes Fleurant, a Cambridge resident and professor at Salem State College, told the councillors that "the Haitian people are fed up. They want peace. They want democracy...
...city of diverse populations, Cambridge has more than 5000 Spanish-speaking Haitians, Salvadorans and Guatemalans--representing almost five percent of the city's population--and at least that number in undocumented refugees. "The Haitians in Cambridge have appreciated the gesture," says John Barnes, director of the Cambridge Haitian-American Association. "They feel more accepted than they have felt. It gives them more courage to stand up for their rights...
...Cambridge Haitian-American Association [CHAMA], a private community organization set up to assist Haitian immigrants has received far more serious complaints of discrimination because of the AIDS scare--ranging from housing discrimination to doctors who have refused Haitians medical treatment, says CHAMA Director John A. Barnes...
...lack of interpreters at the hospital has forced many Haitian residents to go to Dorchester to seek Creole-speaking doctors, Julian Saintelot, a case worker at the Cambridge Haitian-American Association, said yesterday...
Thomas Webb, a Washington representative for the Murchison family of Texas, told the committee that in 1961 Baker was responsible for finding a buyer for meat for the Murchison-bankrolled Haitian-American Meat & Provisions Co. (Hampco) of Port-au-Prince. For this, Webb said, Baker earned a ¼?-a-lb. "finder's fee." Later, when a Chicago firm, Packers Provision Co., bought Hampco's output, Baker began receiving a ⅛-a-lb. commission, though he had no part in getting Packers and Hampco together. Packers President William Kentor has said that Hampco "insisted" Baker be paid. Besides getting...