ESPN anchor Malika Andrews wasn’t shaken up when a 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles on Aug. 12, rumbling the ESPN studio during her live interview on NBA Today.
The Haitian people are in dire need of relief
Sign of the issues still plaguing the country.
(NYT) –As Alourds Grandoit hitches her chair across the yard, following the spots of shade, her thoughts linger mostly on the dead: 10 relatives lost in the Jan. 12 earthquake. But sometimes they turn to a plastic barrel that is wending its way toward her, from her cousin’s two-family house in Queens to a ship […]
(AOL Black Voices) — Relief organizations in the United States raised more than $1.3 billion for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, according to fundraising experts. What is also interesting is that most of this money has not yet been spent. “That’s potentially worrisome with the hurricane season about to begin,” said Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of […]
(Mashable) — Twitter has been picking up steam among the celebrity set for months now. So when a 5.9 earthquake hit Southern California this evening, all the rock stars, TV demigods and film legends took to the web to tell the world all about it. -loving celebs to reach out to followers and friends in the minutes […]
(New York Times) — When she talks about summers in Haiti, Naila Zephyr’s voice turns dreamy: The sea is “blue and clear and nice.” The sun sets right over the water. On the way home from the beach, she buys stewed conch in paper cups from roadside vendors, an indelible taste of childhood. Family houses are […]
(NYT) — Husband and wife tried not to let tension seep into their last days together. On Jan. 4, he would leave the family home in Queens for Haiti, where he was working to reduce deaths from natural disasters — not just the hurricanes that Haitians have come to expect, but also a threat he believed […]
Disparity in relief efforts for Haiti possibly tied to U.S recession.
(HuffingtonPost) — Corail has a stocked U.N. World Food Program warehouse for its 3,000-and-counting residents; the more than 8,500 at Camp Obama are desperate for food and water. Corail’s entrance is guarded by U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police. Camp Obama’s residents put up a Haitian flag to mark their empty security tent. The camps, neighbors in […]