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Haiti’s displaced: Caught between greedy landlords and an absentee government

Co-authored by and Laura Raymond, Education and Outreach Associate for CCR Today the Center for Constitutional Rights delegation in Haiti visited the Barbancourt II displacement camp in Port-Au-Prince. This camp is home to 310 families who lost their homes in the earthquake and have set up tents, tarps and corrugated metal structures with the few [...]

Haiti needs legitimate leaders right now.  Unfortunately, the elections set for November 28, 2010 are a sham.  Here are five reasons why the world community should care. First, Haitian elections are supposed to choose their new President, the entire House of Deputies and one-third of the country’s Senate.  But election authorities have illegally excluded all [...]

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An old Ghanaian proverb says, “Until the lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” Journalism is the first draft of history. In the wake of Democrats’ shellacking in the midterm election, journalists and pundits blamed low black turnout for their losses. They compared 2010 turnout with 2008, but [...]

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A little more than one year ago I wrote a column about the year 2012. The emphasis I made was that the ancient Mayans did not make predictions as much as they made calculations that have withstood the test of time and have proven to be unerringly accurate. For some odd reason I have been [...]

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My daughter, Nailah, is all those prissy, pretty things that one would expect from a four year old who grows up watching her mother obsess over fashion, make-up and other things traditionally “girly”.  When asked to describe her I often comment that she is a walking, talking Broadway show- all glitter and glam and dancing-singing [...]

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When we peer into the unknown our eyes are watching God, novelist Zora Neale Hurston might say. As I said my friend, the Miami businessman, Dave Williams, sees things differently than other people. He says this is because he is a space alien. He said that black folk did not come out to vote in [...]

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When the head of the California division of the NAACP spoke out in support of that state’s Proposition 19 this summer, there seemed to be an equal amount of immediate praise and backlash. Alice Huffman labeled the drug war as a “civil rights issue” getting attention both on a state and national level and once [...]

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I attended Saturday’s One Nation Working Together rally.  Truth be told, there were too many speakers droning on about a mash-up of progressive causes from green jobs to green cards for illegal immigrants.  The rally was scheduled to end at 4:00 p.m., but folks were leaving by the thousands around 3:00 p.m. For me, the [...]

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I was flying cross country in mid September when I noticed that the airline’s peanut wrappers and napkins announced the arrival and importance of National Hispanic Heritage month.  While snacking I began to think about issues that prove important to members of this community, of which I am one.  Without a doubt there is much [...]

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By any objective measure Barack Obama has been the most engaged and effective president on American Indian issues since at least since Richard Nixon. You could even make the case that Obama is better than Nixon because there has been so much successful legislation and Executive Branch action in less than two years. A quick [...]

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