In response to the recent unfortunate turn of events in Haiti, Black Fashion Fair has teamed up with the fashion house Haus of Cité Soleil to raise funds in efforts to contribute to the country’s ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A heavily armed gang burst into a hospital in Haiti on Wednesday and took hostage hundreds of women, children and newborns, according to the director of the medical center ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The bullets began piercing the windows of the hospital as women cradling young children ran from room to room searching for a safe place to hide while the heavily armed gang ...
“Poverty has a way of stripping a person from their dignity. It teaches them that defense mechanisms are their weapons, and pride is their currency. Poverty strangles, decimates, and poverty devours.” ...
Cité Soleil, an impoverished area in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, is often associated with urban despair, poverty, lawlessness and chaos. Known as Site Solèy in Haitian Creole, the sprawling ...
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -At least 110 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cite Soleil slum when a gang leader targeted elderly people he suspected of causing his child's illness through ...
Few documentaries could be as different as "March of the Penguins" and "Ghosts of Cite Soleil," a scary, fascinating documentary about gang life in Haiti's worst slum. The comparison comes to mind ...
Asger Leth’s documentary explores the Port-au-Prince slum Cité Soleil, identified by a U.N. agency as the “most dangerous place on earth.” It’s a prismatic, jagged, none-too-coherent travelogue—a ...
The false and hurtful stories about Haitian immigrants abducting and eating pets in Ohio conjure my father’s edict: “No gratuitous insults.” They also evoke the teachings of St. Paul, who wrote in ...
Staggering poverty, political instability and natural disasters have long plagued Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. This year has been especially brutal: Violent and deadly ...