Peter Granitz
Davis learned that Haitians who believed in zombies believed that a bokor's sorcery -- not a poison or a drug -- created them. According to local lore, a bokor captures a victim's ti bon ange, or the part of the soul directly connected to an individual, to create a zombie. But duri...
Doing themselves no favors, Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate,indulged the lie that Trump won in 2020. And Trump closed the day at a Univision forum byrepeating falsehoods about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, while promising to visit the safe red state d...
Once AIDS manifests, a person is susceptible to many different infections because HIV has weakened the immune system to the point where it can no longer fight back effectively. In fact, HIV not only invades and weakens the immune system — the very system that would normally protect the body...
Voodoo is an important part in the day-to-day lives of many Haitians. Estimates vary, but in general anthropologists believe that 50 to 80 pecent of Haitians practice some form of Voodoo, often in concert with other religions [source: U.S. Dept. of State]. Voodoo has also played an imp...
He rose to the bait repeatedly when she baited him, something I’m sure his advisers begged him not to do ... in this debate we heard so many of the old grievances we thought Trump had learned were not winners politically ... so my sense is, she came out in p...
They asserted that the cholera epidemic was a product of "gross negligence, recklessness, and deliberate indifference for the lives of Haitians," amounting to a violation of various international human rights instru- ments.31 As remedy, they demanded that the UN ac- knowledge responsibilit...
Offices, various services and even the courts had trouble making appointments, and phone lines became overwhelmed. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians in their homeland and abroad fretted over the WhatsApp outage. Many of the country’s more than 11 million people depend it to alert one another ...
How Can We Help Others In Need?: Hal Donaldson & Will McGinniss – Episode #262 Narrator:Welcome to theJesus Calling Podcast. Many of us feel called to serve others in some way. Often when we think about what that could look like, we might feel overwhelmed at the amount of need ...
For my service learning project I volunteered my time at the Oregon Food Bank and at the National Day of Service sponsored by the Office of Service Learning (OSL.) By doing these events it made me thankful that I live a life that doesn't require immediate assistance and/or urgent care. ...