Via: TheUrbanDaily.com // Today’s edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show will feature special guests Wyclef Jean, Rihanna, and Maxwell. Wyclef is expected to share his eyewitness accounts from his time in Haiti since the earthquakes on the show. Rihanna will be performing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (insert record scratching sound here). Maxwell is performing as […]
Via: NewsOne.com // PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A powerful new earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking rubble from damaged buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country’s capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake. The magnitude-6.1 temblor was the largest aftershock yet to the Jan. 12 quake. The extent […]
Via: NewsOne.com // PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Scores of U.S. troops landed on the lawn of Haiti’s shattered presidential palace Tuesday to the cheers by quake victims eager for reinforcements in the sluggish global effort to bring food, water and shelter to the devastated country. Thousands more U.S. troops are on the way and the U.N. […]
Via: NewsOne.com // MIAMI — U.S. authorities are readying for a potential influx of Haitians seeking to escape their earthquake-wracked nation, even though the policy for migrants remains the same: with few exceptions, they will go back. So far, fears of a mass migration have yet to materialize. However, conditions in Haiti become more dire […]
Via: NewsOne.com // From EOnline.com: Russell Simmons tends to know what he’s tweeting about. A day after the record mogul tweeted that Tiger Woods was earmarking $3 million for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the Tiger Woods Foundation confirmed that the scandal-plagued athlete will be contributing to relief efforts in the Caribbean nation. “Sorry about blowing up tigers […]
Via: NewsOne.com // WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Thursday that “one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history” is moving toward Haiti as he continued to mobilize the U.S. response to the island’s devastating earthquake. Obama said the U.S. government is initially directing $100 million toward the relief effort, a figure he […]
Via: NewsOne.com // The Haitian ambassador appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night and made it a point to address Pat Robertson’s recent comments that Haiti had signed a pact with the devil to defeat the French in 1804, which led to the recent earthquake. He connected the Haitian revolution to the development of […]
Via: TheUrbanDaily.com // On Tuesday January 12, 2010, just mere days after Haiti celebrated its 206th year of independence, the small island made of up 95% Blacks was hit by a category seven earthquake. It is reported that over 100,000 people may be dead and many more are feared missing buried in rubble. Haitian entertainers […]
Via: TimesDispatch.com Photo courtesy of: JORGE CRUZ/AP A Richmond woman and her daughter on a mission trip to Haiti escaped injury in yesterday’s earthquake, her husband said today, and the group with which they were traveling is also believed to be safe. Corell Halsey Moore and her daughter, Ali Halsey, a University of Virginia student, […]
Donate $10 to Red Cross 4 Haiti text Haiti to 90999 or to donate $5 via Wycleff Jean’s charity text Yele to 501501 For more information on the American Red Cross Relief For Haiti visit http://newsroom.redcross.org/ You can also visit the Red Cross Chat Room http://redcrosschat.org/2010/01/12/earthquake-in-haiti/ To find family members in Haiti call 1-888-407-4747 Listen […]
Via: TheUrbanDaily.com // Haiti native Wyclef Jean is asking for assistance for victims of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince on Tuesday. The singer told ET, “Haiti today faced a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion, an earthquake unlike anything the country has ever experienced. VIDEO: Wyclef And Will Smith Do “Ladi Dadi” For […]
