Celebrity musician Wyclef Jean denounced charges that he misappropriated funds from his charity, Yele Haiti, and defended the foundation and his commitment to Haiti relief efforts. "Let me be clear: I denounce any allegation that I have ever profited personally through my work with Yele Haiti," Jean said in a statement released Saturday. "These baseless attacks are simply not true."
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday declared one of the largest relief efforts in U.S. history to help Haiti four days after an earthquake killed up to 200,000 people and devastated the Caribbean nation’s capital.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — The dead lie in piles on street corners, covered by flimsy pieces of cardboard boxes. The living crowd tent cities, as many as 20,000 awaiting food, water and medicine.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Fred Gray, a member of the Western Reserve University law school class of 1954, has led a life as remarkable as the famous clients he represented — among them the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks.
From NYTimes.com: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Despite dimming odds, rescue workers pulled more people alive from the rubble — including a 7-year-old girl who survived more than four days eating dried fruit rolls in the supermarket that collapsed around her — as water and emergency aid deliveries improved on Sunday, though not nearly enough to meet […]
Washington Watch’s Roland Martin spoke to a panel about what dialogues about race have been looking like since the election of Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Guatemala’s Pacific coast near the border with El Salvador on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
From the NY Times: COLUMBIA, S.C. — Until 1923, the only school in the largely black farm settlement of Pine Grove was the one hand-built by parents, a drafty wooden structure in the churchyard.
Over the past few years the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day festival, which this year takes place all-day today at the Cleveland institution, has become the venue’s largest-attended event
From CNN.com: A year after the election of America’s first African-American president, blacks in the United States are expressing optimism about racial progress not seen in a quarter-century, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.
Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) — Musicians decided to strike at Cleveland Orchestra after rejecting a 5 percent pay cut.
Friday night, Samuel Dalembert played in his second game since a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake sent his native Port-au-Prince, Haiti, into devastation, with upwards of 100,000 reported dead.
