Haitian singer Wyclef Jean was shot in his hand in Haiti just outside of Port-au-Prince yesterday, the day before the presidential elections. Wyclef was a…

Last night at around 11pm, Wyclef Jean was shot in the hand while in Haiti to support presidential candidate Michel Martelly in his election. Details are…

Kim Kardashian recently went to Haiti where she passed out presents to children displaced from last year’s tragic earthquake. However, sources are saying she only went as a PR stunt to improve her image after tricking the public with her 72-day sham of a marriage. Granted, this story comes from the National Enquirer, so take […]

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Singer and songwriter Christopher Laroche, a.k.a. “FREEDOM” was born and raised in Haiti and last year he released a tribute song for his homeland entitled “Move On.”  The commemorate the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010 producer Drumma Boy remixed the track. FREEDOM is the founder of Freedom Recordz, […]

Former Haitian Presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean lashed out yesterday against the elections in Haiti in what candidates labeled a sham election.

Via CNN.com Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) — American soldiers returning from Haiti in the early ’20s and ’30s came home with arresting tales of voodoo potions, black magic, and living-dead zombies. They published their stories in mass-market pulp novels, which in turn inspired horror movies and eventually made their corporeal way to our supermarket aisles […]

Chaos reigned north of Haiti’s capital Friday as hospitals overflowed with people rushing to get help from a fast-moving cholera break that has killed at least 138 people. Terry Snow, Haiti director for the non-profit Youth With a Mission, saw people lined up outside hospitals and clinics, many in stretchers, waiting 24 hours or more […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A Colorado man who founded a school for street children in Haiti acknowledged Wednesday that he sexually abused several, wrapping up a case in which prosecutors said he manipulated the boys with promises of food and shelter and threatened to expel them if they refused. Douglas Perlitz, 40, pleaded guilty Wednesday […]

A group of scholars and activists including Cornel West and Noam Chomsky are urging France to pay the billions of dollars of debt that Haiti paid them for Haitian independence. The UK Guardian reports : The open letter to the French president says the debt, now worth more than €17bn (£14bn), would cover the rebuilding […]

From MSNBC LONDON — A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti. “I had thought Landina was dead and when I heard she was alive I was in shock,” the eight-month-old infant’s mother, Marie Miracle Seignon, told Britain’s Channel 4 News. […]

On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city and large stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated. Six months later, not much appears to have changed. It still looks like a bomb just dropped on this city.