Sep 17, 2021
Thousands of mostly Haitian asylum seekers have gathered under the bridge that connects Del Rio in Texas and Mexico’s Ciudad Acuña, creating a makeshift camp with few basic services in intense heat. More than 50 Democratic lawmakers urged the Biden administration to...
Dec 24, 2018
On Day 7 of Community Supported Film’s 10 day New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) film festival, Braulio Tellez-Vilches brings us an excerpt from his film, Lift with Your Heart, about Haitian choreographer and dancer Jean Appolon. Braulio emigrated from Cuba in...
Nov 22, 2017
November 10, 2017, for The Boston Herald Thousands more immigrants are living in Massachusetts under Temporary Protected Status than previously thought. The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition says 12,326 people from 10 countries have the temporary...
Sep 20, 2017
By: Anthony Man, September 18, 2017, for the Sun Sentinel The South Florida congressional delegation and both of the state’s U.S. senators issued a bipartisan plea to the Trump administration on Monday to extend temporary protected status for Haitian nationals in the...
Jan 25, 2017
Poem of the Day: quaking conversation BY LENELLE MOÏSE i want to talk about haiti. how the earth had to break the island’s spine to wake the world up to her screaming. how this post-earthquake crisis is not natural or supernatural. i want to talk about...
