MUSIC VIDEO: MELKY JEAN - "BETTER"

Wyclef Jean’s younger sister Melky Jean debuts “Better”, the first single from The Care for Haiti Charity Album. The track, which was produced by Wyclef, is available on iTunes and Amazon with proceeds benefiting Care for Haiti, Yele Haiti, Carma and the Ted Lucas Foundation.

The Care for Haiti Charity Album will be released March 8 and include selections from Patti LaBelle and Talib Kweli, among others. Check out the video for “Better” below.

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REMEMBERING HAITI - ONE YEAR LATER

Haiti tent camp

One year ago today Haiti was devastated by an Earthquake that claimed approximately 230,000 lives. The Earthquake that lasted no more than 30 seconds has caused so much damage for this country that a year is not nearly enough time to resurrect it. 

According to USA Today:

The United Nations, U.S. aid officials and Haiti's government insist that progress is being made though it's hard to see amid the widespread devastation. Still, that progress is piecemeal, a reflection of Haitian poverty and institutional weakness before the quake, the scale of devastation after, and the challenge of coordinating an international cast of actors carrying out their own rebuilding objectives, say aid experts.

The U.N. reported in December that the number of people left homeless by the quake had dropped from 1.5 million to 1 million. Even that possible sign of progress may not be what it seems, because the U.N. isn't sure whether those who left camps set up for the homeless had found decent housing. Elsewhere in this nation of close to 10 million that was struggling with poverty long before the quake, there is little sense that things have improved.

The unemployment rate here is the highest in the hemisphere. The U.S. government reports that as many as two-thirds of Haiti's workers have no job or are working very little. Most homes, schools and buildings that toppled in the quake have not been rebuilt; even the rubble has not been cleared. Crime is going up.

HAITI RELIEF: "ARE YOU LISTENING?" - KIRK FRANKLIN + FRIENDS

Beautiful!

~♥Shené

HOPE 4 HAITI

Hope for Haiti is a benefit concert in Columbus, Ohio to be held at The Kings Art Complex Theater, Friday, January 22nd, 2010 @7pm. The cost is $10 @ the door and all proceeds go to the American Red Cross (of Columbus, Ohio) specifically for their efforts in aiding Haiti in Disaster relief & recovery.
Hope for Haiti is the collaborative effort of many of Columbus' young entrepreneurs. Feeling they were all called to help Haiti in some way, they decided to use the resources and networks they all possessed and invite the community out for what will prove to be a GREAT show & an easy way to give to this ongoing effort. Haiti will continue to need everyone's help and the concert is just touching the surface but will show the community and Haiti that we are committed to helping the world at large. We are all connected in some way.


The organizing sponsors of Hope for Haiti: BLAKstar Media, REACH LLC, Cover Me LLC, WUGR, The FlyPaper,  Hipolicy Magazine, JWORK LTD, De2 Media, 3 Birds Collective, Soulo Theory Design & LudieTrends, thank you all for your support and hope to see you on Friday for what will prove to be a good time. 


For more info follow us on twitter @hope4haiti  
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The Concert Lineup: 
The Liquid Crystal Project
L.e
Speak Williams
Barbara Fant
Fly Union
Flex Crew
Carlotta Penn 


Hosted by Javier Sanchez

See The Event Posted on Columbus Alive's The a-list 
Take the time to read the following Haitian facts. From these brief facts you will see a history of a truly resilient people, who fought off slavery and survived civil wars, countless massacres and truly oppressive leadership.

- From 1697 to 1791 Saint Domingue, now Haiti, was the richest colony in the world. Its capital, Cap Français, is known as the Paris of the New World.

-Haiti is the Second independent nation and First black-governed republic and kingdom in the Western Hemisphere

-The Haitian army defeated the French forces of Napoleon in the Battle of Vertieres on 18th November 1803.

-This war resulted in the Louisiana Purchase in 1802 that doubled the America's size, making it formidable enough to withstand almost any outside threat. It gave America its heartland, as well as control of the Mississippi River and the important port city of New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico.

- The Haitian Revolution was the catalyst for the Abolitionist movement and the end of slavery in America.

- In 1779, Free Haitians called “Les Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue” volunteered to fight for American Independence from the British

-Haiti is the first black republic in the world on January 1, 1804 and have remained independent to this day.