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Colin Dayan: Return to Haiti
Colin Dayan writes about her first visit to Haiti since the earthquake for The Boston Review. I went back to Haiti on August 15, a year and a half after the earthquake. The place where I had lived on...
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Boxer Andre Berto’s memories of 2010 earthquake in Haiti remain fresh
Berto took part in rescue efforts after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated the country he considers home, leaving behind a world of devastation that the boxer will never forget, as Bill Dwyre...
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Haitian art since earthquake on display in Miami
The metal figures standing like sentinels in the middle of an exhibit of contemporary Haitian art are created from a mishmash of scrap metal and found objects: nails, marbles, old shoes, bed springs,...
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Tap Tap: The Haitian sitcom
Made by the talented young Haitian director Zaka, Tap Tap the sitcom is now being screened in earthquake ravaged neighborhoods of Port au Prince. The first public showing before a Haitian audience...
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Noah’s stories in shaky archipelagos: Martinique, Haiti, Fukushima
OpenDemocracy.org has published a series of articles about Fukushima. In the third piece of the series—by Ryuta Imafuku, a professor of Anthropology and Communication at the Graduate School of Global...
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Hundreds in Haiti march against gov’t plan to destroy homes in shanty area
More than 1,000 Haitians marched through the Caribbean nation’s capital Monday to protest a reported plan to destroy their hillside shanties for a flood-control project before they find better, more...
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Forthcoming Book: Dany Laferrière’s “The World is Moving Around Me”
Haitian writer Dany Laferrière’s new book, The World is Moving Around Me, will be published on January 12, 2013, the third anniversary of the disastrous earthquake. The book offers a moving series of...
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Historic Caribbean Earthquake Was Felt in NYC
More than 150 years ago, a fault ringing theCaribbean shook half the Atlantic, including New York City, with a mega-earthquake. The quake rivaled those that have struck Indonesia in recent years,...
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A Poetic Journey After The Quake: HIV/AIDs In Haiti
The devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti demolished the country’s health care system along with everything else, Patricia Sagastume reports in this article on a poetic project emerging from the ruins...
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St Lucia and St Vincent Earthquake Rattles the Islands with a 3.9 Magnitude
The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI) said that an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 rattled St. Lucia and neighboring St. Vincent and the Grenadines...
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Raoul Peck’s “Assistance Mortelle”
In “Berlinale–Haiti Feeling Aftershocks,” David D’Arcy (Outtakes) writes about Haiti as seen through Raoul Peck’s documentary film Assistance Mortelle [Fatal Assistance] (Haiti, France, USA, Belgium,...
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New Book: Kwame Dawes’“A Bloom of Stones”
Due on March 25, 2013, is Kwame Dawes’ A Bloom of Stones: A Trilingual Anthology of Haitian Poems After the Earthquake. This collection presents a wide array of voices through French and Haitian...
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Rebuilding Haiti: The dependency, the hurdles and the pitfalls
This article appeared in The Stabroek News. During his visit here in March Haitian President and sitting Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman Michel Martelly provided confirmation of what we already...
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I Came to Haiti to Do Good …
This op-ed piece by NORA SCHENKEL appeared in The New York Times. WHEN I was living in Haiti, people often asked me for money. Strangers in the street held out their hands to me on the rare occasions...
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Colin Dayan: The Secret History of the Haitian Earthquake (A Conversation...
Colin Dayan’s in-depth interview with Jonathan M. Katz, author of The Bog Truck that Went By, appeared in The Boston Review. Here are some excerpts, but we highly recommend reading the full interview,...
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“Haiti Untold” to kick off DirecTV doc strand
Five documentaries are to air on DirecTV channel Audience Network’s ‘Something To Talk About’ strand this fall, Kevin Ritchie reports for realscreen.com. Presented by Brainstorm Media, the strand...
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171,000 Still Live in Haiti’s Quake Camps
This Wunderground.com post reports that the United Nations records show that the number of Haitians that are still displaced by the 2010 earthquake has now dropped below 200,000. Now, 171,974 people...
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The forgotten victims of Haiti’s earthquake
This article by Chiara Liguori, Amnesty International’s Caribbean researcher, appeared in CNN. Editor’s note: Chiara Liguori is Amnesty International’s Caribbean researcher. The views expressed are...
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Many of Kingston’s Public Buildings Not Earthquake Ready
A recent assessment of public buildings in the Kingston Metropolitan Region has revealed that several are not earthquake resistant. The assessment, carried out by the Office of Disaster Preparedness...
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Museum exhibit focuses on Haiti earthquake
“Fragments: Haiti Four Years After the Earthquake,”a new exhibit at the NIU Anthropology Museum, invites visitors to explore the lives and living conditions of Haitian people living “under the tents”...
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