Word: haitian
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...grader at Cambridge's Matignon High School, pointed to the cracked wall by her living room sofa, as she complained of the cold temperature in the room. Her mother, Marie, appeared in the doorway buttoning her coat, and slipped out of the door after delivering some last remarks in Haitian Creole...
...idea that European culture is oppressive in and of itself is a fallacy that can survive only among the fanatical and the ignorant. The moral and intellectual conviction that inspired Toussaint-Louverture to focus the rage of the Haitian slaves and lead them to freedom in 1791 came from his reading of Rousseau and Mirabeau. When thousands of voteless, propertyless workers the length and breadth of England met in their reading groups in the 1820s to discuss republican ideas and discover the significance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, they were seeking to unite themselves by taking back the meanings...
...officer was beaming like an expectant father getting ready to pass out cigars. Maybe even Cuban cigars. "In the next 48 hours we will have the first migrant Haitian born in Guantanamo, which we are all kind of looking forward to," announced Brigadier General George H. Walls of the Marines last week. Right on schedule came the new arrival: a baby boy (6 lbs. 8 oz.) born to a 20-year-old Haitian woman. The infant raises a ticklish diplomatic issue: Are the children of Haitian refugees born on the Guantanamo ("Gitmo") Bay Naval Base entitled to U.S. citizenship? Absolutely...
Dancing and waving signs, hundreds of Haitian immigrants took to the streets of Miami to celebrate a victory for their countrymen last week. Rejecting the government's argument that it should be allowed to ship back to Haiti the refugees who have tried to reach Florida in sailboats in the past three months, U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins extended his ban on forcible repatriation of the boat people. Since September, when the military ousted Haiti's first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted 6,442 Haitians. Most are now living in camps...
...Celebration of Haitian Culture--a performance by poet-playwright Jean-Claude Martineau and the Hibiscus Company including poetry, songs and stories in Creole and English and drumming by a master drummer. In Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., in the Remis Auditorium. Sunday, Dec. 15, at 3 p.m. For information call...