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So on this critique of @goldenglobes that #HollywoodForeignPress Association has no Black members: Surely@MediaProjectOrg @ICFJ and other intl journalism orgs can locate /train / elevate journalists in film criticism & journalism from our members in Africa, Brazil, Haiti etc.
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Who inspires you? For Merrill executive James Cadet it’s his father, who migrated from Haiti at a young age. Our Black/African American leaders continue to share their inspiration. #BlackHistoryMonth
Liberal pundits like @craigmelvin are trying to normalize radical leftists talking heads as "thought leaders." These are the same "thought leaders" who called Amy Coney Barrett a "white colonizer" for adopting black children from Haiti.
'Disparately targeting Black asylum-seekers': House Democrats slam ICE deportation flights to Haiti
"They're both Black and they're from Haiti ... We have to question whether or not this would have happened to two children from Sweden coming to return to school."— Milli Atkinson, legal director, SF Immigrant Legal Defense Collaborative
"They're both Black and they're from Haiti ... We have to question whether or not this would have happened to two children from Sweden coming to return to school."— Milli Atkinson, legal director, SF Immigrant Legal Defense Collaborative
Happy New Year & Happy Haitian Independence Day! In 1804, my ancestors founded the first black republic in the world. Haiti was the first nation to permanently ban slavery. It’s history worth knowing & well told in season four of Mike Duncan’s podcast:
The controversy over the Supreme Court nominee's adopted kids from Haiti has been troubling, writes @RabbaSusan . Particularly its binary view of white parents like me who adopt Black children:
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Trump called Haiti, the first Black Republic in the world, the first country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, a country consistently targeted by violent, anti-democratic US policy ever since, a shithole.
Google today is celebrating Alexandre Dumas, the black novelist from France who wrote the Three Musketeers. His father, a famous French soldier, known as the Black Count, was born in Haiti to a French nobleman and an enslaved woman of African descent.
January 1st marks 216 years of Haiti's independence. Here is a reminder on how much France ows to the first black led republic in the world.
Did you know that Haiti ?? was the first black country to gain independence! #BlackHistoryMonth
On this day in 1804, Haiti became the world's first Black republic. ?? Revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti's independence after enslaved people successfully rebelled against their French colonizers. #HaitianIndependenceDay
"The president of the United States is tired of so many black people coming to this country. Tired of immigrants from Haiti and Africa being allowed in." --
For those asking, no, I don’t think the president referring to 54 predominantly black countries as “shitholes” as opposed to 55 predominantly black countries (+ Haiti) makes a huge difference *in principle.* But reporting facts is the job and what exactly was said matters.
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