Word: haitians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...show was intended "to try to expose the Harvard community to some aspects of Haitian culture," said Caroline I. Pierre-Louis '97, the Haitian Alliance's cultural co-chair...
...show featured a screening of the 1992 documentary "Killing the Dream," which examines Haitian reactions to the seizure of power by the military regime led by Gen. Raoul Cedras, and shows the popular support for the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was restored to power last year...
Patrick Sylvain, a Haitian-born poet who now teaches in Cambridge, read six selected poems from his work. Among the poems were "Doobop," a tribute to the jazz career of Miles Davis; "Pawol Rasemblemant," a poem in Creole about the Haitian revolution; and "Crucifix," a description of a journalist's torture by the military regime. Manuel St. Victor '95 also recited a short, humorous poem about a failed courtship...
Dance performances by two groups, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin Haitian Club Dancers and the Harvard-Radcliffe Haitian Alliance Dance Troupe, were also featured. The Club Dancers, who have offered renditions of traditional Haitian folk dance forms since 1993, performed a work entitled "L'amour, c'est liberte," or "Love is freedom...
...Haitian Alliance also awarded its first annual scholarship to two high school students. The scholarship, organized by the Alliance's financial co-chairs, Emmanuelle M. Fleurinor '97 and M. Astrid Moise '95, is dedicated "pour l'avancement du progres," or for the advancement of Haitian-American progress...