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...Haitian-born hip-hop producer and artist rose to fame as member of the multi-platinum selling group, the Fugees, before launching his solo career in the late...
...clear that On Beauty is not just an homage but a work of real originality. Smith has a virtuoso talent for capturing dialect, which makes her dialogue almost audible. Belsey's son Levi, a mixed-race child of privilege who takes a weekend job hustling knockoff handbags with Haitian immigrants on the streets of Boston, speaks perfect faux Brooklyn: "This ain't like workin' the counter at CVS! You hustling, man ... That's street." Belsey's southern teaching assistant Smith J. Miller spends half of his appearances trying to explain "pah-point" (Power Point) presentations to the Luddite professor. More...
...Duresny Nemorin and that was a part of my poem, "Who Am I," which basically describes me. I was born and raised in Miami, Fla., by my Haitian parents Marie and Dany Nemorin. Poetry is a big part of who I am. The poets who interest me the most are Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes and Robert Frost. I used to wonder how poetry captivated me, but then I realized that music minus instrument = poetry. Most of the poems I wrote at the beginning of my 7th-grade year were about my crushes, but as the school year ended...
Sandwiched between the steel and concrete walls of MIT’s expanding campus and the late-Victorian homes and Haitian barbershops of working-class east Cambridge, the Garment District caters both to college and blue-collar shoppers—or anyone searching for clothes at rock-bottom prices...
...majority of Haitians, meanwhile, sink deeper into economic despair. Haiti's annual per capita income is $280, though for 80% of the population it is closer to $100, making Haiti the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. The hard-hit Haitian tourist industry lost $30 million last year, in part because of the high incidence of AIDS in Haiti. The government's often arbitrary imposition of new taxes to fill government coffers has discouraged new investment. Emigration, a traditional relief valve for hard-pressed Haitians, has been closed off as the U.S. and others have cracked down on illegal immigrants...