Discussing the Diaspora as seen through an internal Black lens
April 5th, 2010
Just a couple of months after a monster earthquake devastated Haiti, last week the best documentary franchise, Fontline; aired an examination of the quake on PBS. Not only does the piece look at what happen; but at what’s going to happen to the deforested country with the coming rainy season in May.
Ellen Gay says:
“The [...]
Tags: earthquake, Frontline, Haiti, PBS, Yele Haiti
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January 27th, 2010
Y’all remember this gem from the post Katrina coverage?
It’s hard to read the text in this upload of the picture; but next to the Black man he is described as “looting a grocery store”, while the whites are described as “finding bread and soda from a grocery store”; giving us the juxtaposition of Black [...]
Tags: earthquake, Haiti, katrina, loot, looting, looting in natural disaster
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