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...ain’t your bitch, I ain’t your ho,” cries out vocalist Jennifer Sanon in a style reminiscent of Billie Holliday. The sentiment defines “Love and Broken Hearts,” an attack on hip-hop culture from trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ new release, “From the Plantation to the Penitentiary.” Sanon grieves the decline of the love song and the rise of “modern day minstrels” with “songless tunes,” who emphasize sex over...
Relations between planted and host churches are often not as warm as either side would like. "The interaction is not really close," says Frantz Sanon, pastor of the Haitian congregation. "We always seem to meet in a rush." This is partly by design--a half-hour gap between the two services cuts down on chance encounters in the chapel, which nobody really seems to want. Language can also be a barrier. "My congregation can't understand him even when he speaks English," jokes the Rev. William Doubek of his Vietnamese counterpart. Moreover, different denominations cannot worship together. "If we were...
...Kicklighter, a church-planting strategist: "Our overriding concern is reaching an unreached group of people and planting witnesses among them. Our purpose is not necessarily to be multiethnic." That's also true for many immigrant and African-American ministers. "God doesn't want us to separate out," says Sanon, "but for some reason, it is in humans to want to stay with their own kind...
...people drowned, probably more. Jean Bercharles, 25, lost seven members of his family, including a brother, sister and several cousins. "We do not know how many are dead because the ship left so quickly we don't know who got on and ( who died," said 23-year-old schoolteacher Sanon Janot. "We found bodies along the shore all day, and many we know were taken by the currents out to sea. Some of the dead came from far away and have no families who can name them...