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I always enjoy listening to the Declaration, being read.  NPR‘s twenty-second reading.

NPR’s PlanetMoney + PBS’s Frontline have teamed up on some post-quake Haiti reporting.

On the economy inside a tent city.
On tap-taps.

The embedded videos may not work; wacth them on Frontline.

I highly recommend professionally-run organizations like Food for the Poor, Lambi Fund of Haiti and Doctors without Borders(Medecins sans Frontieres).  Celebrity-run are well-meaning but are amateur, to say the least.

Here are some stories about Yele; Gawker, NPR.  Yele is not one of the better way to help.

Haiti’s First Major Quake In Two Centuries

The second fault system on Hispaniola runs mainly on the eastern end of the island, in the Dominican Republic. That Septentrional fault system hasn’t experienced a major quake for more than 800 years, but it holds the potential for producing another devastating quake — quite possibly larger than the one that struck Haiti on Tuesday.

NPR Music dug through its archives and  aired(?)  a session of Marian McPartland’s show from her first season, 1979, featuring John Lewis.  I am a fan.
Great listening!

I think there is a generational and cultural to this idea. But politically, one can forget about this. History, power and race will always influence politics.

Daniel Schorr’s analysis.

Talk of the Nation hosts a forum (Michel Martin, host of NPR’s Tell Me More; Keli Goff, author of Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence; Michael Fauntroy, assistant professor of public policy at George Mason University; author of Republicans and the Black Vote; Raymond Winbush, director of the Institute for Urban Affairs at Morgan State University)

, held at Morgan State University, on Obama, black voters and a potential black presidency in america.