Category Archives: Haiti Music

Ashanti, Jeffrey Wright, Kenny Leon, LL Cool J, Tavis Smiley, and Sharon Leal Attend The 20th Annual NAACP Theatre …

Several celebrities attend the 20th Annual NAACP Theatre awards on August 30th. Honorees include Ashanti Douglas, Jeffrey Wright, Kenny Leon, Wren Brown, Isagenix, and Wal-Mart. Several presenters include Nia Long, Tavis Smiley, Sharon Leal, Ben Vereen, LL Cool J, and … Continue reading

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Spike Lee gives America its voice

I’m talking about Lee’s new two, two-hour episodes that make up his new HBO documentary If God is willin and the creek don’t rise, shot five years after Katrina, which hit on August 29, 2005. Lee’s previous four-part HBO series … Continue reading

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Virginia Tech Student Wins Yéle Haiti Competition

Virginia Tech architecture student Christopher Morgan has won an international competition to design the Yéle Music Studio in the Cité Soleil area of Port-au-Prince.

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Emmy night is big for first-timers

LOS ANGELES — It was a good night for first-timers. The majority of the statuettes handed out at the 62nd annual Emmy Awards have gone to first-time winners — although almost all were familiar faces.

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‘Modern Family’ and ‘Mad Men’ take top Emmy awards

It’s also a big night for first-time winners.

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Life Lessons | Sophie Maier, library outreach coordinator

As community outreach coordinator at Iroquois Library, Maier must both engage the refugee and immigrant communities in the area and showcase their cultural heritage for the community. Maier has seen a little bit of the world within the city and … Continue reading

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Fremont Farmers’ Market is full of joy

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Local dancers bring smiles to Haitians

As 2010 began, members of Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective, a group of Philadelphia-area dance companies based at Ardmore’s First Position Dance Studio, were in the midst of fund-raising for a fourth season presenting an innovative program of dance camps for … Continue reading

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At Stay Tuned, loud’s allowed: Jacksonville music studio’s sound-proof rooms a big draw for bands

It was a rainy Tuesday night, just before dark. Lightning was flashing in the distance and the frogs were starting their chorus. Most of the businesses in the industrial office park off Shad Road had closed for the day, but … Continue reading

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Jean blasts Haitian officials in new song

Wyclef Jean has returned to music following his failed bid to run for president of Haiti to blast officials for rejecting his campaign for office in a new song.

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