Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police brutality works only in the dark. The sadistic assault on Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who was allegedly sodomized with a toilet-plunger handle by New York City police, was supposed to be confined to a station-house bathroom. But now that the attack is a public outrage--his injuries took him to the hospital, and from there to newspaper front pages--much more is at stake than just the reputation of Brooklyn's 70th Precinct, where four officers face charges. All around the country, the aggressive, "zero tolerance" policing strategy--which has contributed to New York's plummeting...
...Saturday, Aug. 9, Abner Louima, 30, a Haitian immigrant, was relaxing at a Brooklyn music club when a fight broke out between two women. Next thing Louima knew, he had been taken into custody by police outside the club. Louima, a bank security guard and a married father, says he was beaten as police drove to Brooklyn's 70th Precinct station house. But it was after he got there that the real nightmare began: as he tells it, he was strip-searched, then two cops took him into a bathroom and shoved a wooden pole, perhaps belonging to a toilet...
...album reflects an eclectic, global vision. Wyclef grew up in Haiti, and he fills The Carnival with Caribbean rhythms and references; in fact, some of the songs are sung in Haitian Creole. In other songs, like We Trying to Stay Alive, Wyclef samples the Bee Gees, while in Gunpowder, he makes a powerful plea against violence. He even manages a skillful hip-hop version of Guantanamera. Like the Fugees' cover of Killing Me Softly, Guantanamera refashions an old song that is almost too familiar and makes it contemporary and vital. Altogether, the variety and reach of the album are extraordinary...
...just a little ol' lawyer with Arent Fox, a D.C. firm that at the time did legal and lobbying work for several foreign governments and various overseas corporations. According to documents Thompson and Arent Fox filed with the Department of Justice, Thompson's duties included lobbying for Haitian President JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE, who hired Arent Fox in October 1991 shortly after his government was overthrown by a military coup. As the firm lobbied U.S. officials to bolster support for Aristide's return to power, Thompson pitched in by calling JOHN SUNUNU, chief of staff for the Bush White House...
...biggest obstacle is cultural differences built into worship styles. Speaking of black Baptists who share his church, Lutheran Doubek says, "When they sing Amazing Grace, the song is the same but it sounds different." Our Redeemer's Haitians use Haitian music, and the Kingshighway Latino congregation integrates salsa, soul and tango sounds. Sermon styles differ: African Americans expect call and response from the pews and services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites...