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.
Category: haiti
Best ways help haitians.
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.
nytimes – Haitian diaspora in nyc
good cnn coverage
Good information regarding recovery and road access. cnn.
nytimes map of Port-au-prince, Haiti
A great map from the nytimes. via Reynald on facebook.
Haiti seats on major regional faults
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.
Alan Lomax : Haiti
The Alan Lomax Collection, which is part of the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, is releasing a box set of music from 1930s Haiti.
Alan Lomax made an impressive career out of recording folk music all over the world; bringing it to American audiences, and preserving it for posterity. But few people heard the recordings that Lomax made in Haiti in the 1930’s. This month (Nov 17th) those Haiti recordings will be released to the public for the first time in the form of a 10-CD box set.
via http://www.theworld.org/2009/11/02/global-hit-alan-lomax/
NPR covered this story as well.
Hartre Recordings is actually releasing the box set. They offer a sample.
Afropop Worldwide has a review.
And Alan Lomax facebook page, maintained by the Association for Cultural Equity.
Toussaint
A film by Danny Glover. The film is rumored to feature Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Mos Def, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Wesley Snipes, among others.
Here is FAQ on how to approach the filmmakers.