Word: haitians
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Among the 150 programs broadcast on the station's three channels (9, 10 and 22) each week, there are shows ranging from "Raise the Roof" (which deals with issues of housing and homelessness) to the "Portuguese Entertainment Network" to "Haitian American Teens TV" to "BeLive: Stone Soup...
...once was. In the 1970s, the number of students enrolled was around 300; today that number hovers around 180. On top of the reduced enrollment, the teachers face a wider variety of nationalities in the classroom. When the program first began, the student were mostly Greek, Portugese, Hispanic or Haitian. Today, there are greater instances of "low-incidence languages," with students from Pakistan, India, Africa, China and Vietnam. Consequently, they cannot hold classes in native languages because there is not a significant enough incidence of any one language. The call to create what Clayton terms a "bilingual diaspora" is dangerous...
Aristide thanked Harvard for its defense of Haitian refugees. The University has helped confront the Clinton Administration's decision to continue forced repatriation of refugees. The administration justifies its polices by saying that the refugees are escaping economic hardship in Haiti, and not political oppression...
...year-old was reported to CPD as missing by his foster mother. He is a black male of Haitian descent with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen at 10:30 a.m. on July 31 at his home...
...city survey in which 24% of the blacks who were polled said they were unhappy with their local police. It was a smaller number than might be expected at a time of prominent police-brutality cases, including the trial of three New York City officers accused of assaulting Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. But it was a far higher number than the 10% of whites unhappy with police...