US Census released American Community Survey, 2005-2009 data set that gives a snapshot of the American population. The Herald reported on the data for Miami-Dade and Broward.
Some interesting facts:
Miami-Dade’s population about 2.5 million.
61 % Hispanics, 20 % Blacks, the rest being mostly white non-Hispanics.
Median family income : $39,000 – Blacks, $45,000 – Hispanics, $84,000 – White; $62,000 – US
A Duke grad student, Julia Gaffield, found a copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence, in the British National Archives. She found an eight page pamphlet printed by “l’Impremerie du Gouvernement.” The pamphlet might have been sent worldwide, at least around the Caribbean and Europe.
Press release from Duke. Get a pdf of the document from the British National Archives. via TheWorld.
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.
