LotBo Films, LLC is announcing the production of its first
major film project: “Ayiti, Ayiti” portrays the rich complexity of Haitian
immigrant life in the United States. The screenplay was a selection of the
Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs, and won the first Time Warner
Storytelling Award.  The producers of the
film have had previous films selected to screen at the Sundance, Berlin,
Toronto, and Tribeca film festivals. 
“Ayiti, Ayiti” will be shot in April 2009 in New York City.  ....

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If you are a Haitian man or woman between the ages of
20-60 who speaks Haitian Creole fluently, we may have a role for you in
this film.  No acting experience
necessary.  If you are interested, you
are invited to attend our open casting call:....

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DATE:            Friday, March 13, 2009....

TIME:                         4pm-7pm....

LOCATION: Long Island University Brooklyn
Campus....

1 University Plaza, Brooklyn....

(Health
and Science Building, Room HS 121)....

DIRECTIONS: Take the B, Q, M, R Train to Dekalb
Avenue Stop. Entrance is on Dekalb, near the corner of Flatbush Avenue.....

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If you are unable to attend the casting call, please email a
photo, your name, and phone # to: ayitifilm@gmail.com.  For more information, email ayitifilm@gmail.com or call 646-652-6845.....

PICTURE:A Concise History Of Black-White Relations In USA

VIDEO:Katt Williams Talking About Racism At The Flavor Flav Roast

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VIDEO:Haitian-American Mecca AkA Grimo Ft. ReDDStaRR & Barack Obama - As Long As I Can [Obama Anthem]

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Wyclef Jean Was Honored At Petra Nemcova's 2008 Gala

Although Petra Nemcova's 2008 gala for her Happy Hearts Fund was on Wall Street, Monday night at the Cipriani, there was no sign of a recession in sight. The theme of the night, "A Masquerade in Venice," welcomed New York's elite, bringing in droves of lovely ladies in carnival masks and floor-length gowns to the $2500 a seat dinner.

Kevin Spacey (who left shooting for his new film The Men Who Stare at Goats to come), on whether or not it's hard to raise money in these times, tells us, "No, it's hugely important particularly in these times that we constantly remind people that governments can't do everything. Certainly in the past eight years this particular government hasn't done a lot."

Highlighting the importance of raising funds through corporations and individual donors, he continues, "We shouldn't allow organizations like Happy Hearts or any other organization that does this kind of work to suffer during times like this. So it's hugely important that we don't fall into the trap of saying, 'Oh, it's going to be harder to raise money.'"

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Haiti's Death Squad Ally Of CIA And Proconsul McCarry Sentenced To 30 Years

Cuba proconsul Caleb McCarry with a few cuban american friends of Miami. All are linked with terrorist actions against Cuba. After Haiti, CIA agent McCarry was assigned Cuba by his boss, George W. Bush.

EMMANUEL "Toto" Constant, chief of a CIA-backed Haiti death squad that massacred, tortured and terrorized thousands of his compatriots, and whose accomplices later collaborated with another agent the U.S. proconsul for Cuba, Caleb McCarry has just been sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison.

The only thing is, he was not sentenced for crimes against humanity but for a multi-million-dollar real estate fraud.

Some commentators even call this mercenary the "Haitian Savimbi," on account of his blind collaboration with the CIA and the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, in the U.S. dirty war against the legitimate government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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Jesse Jackson Concerned About Bush's Last Days

Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson addresses reporters after speaking during a service at Bethel A.M.E. Church Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008 in Baltimore. Jackson spoke to the church about the black community after the election of Barack Obama as president. (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark)

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday he is concerned about executive orders from President Bush in his last few months in office and the effect they could have on the incoming administration.

"Bush is signing away consumer and environmental laws. I mean they're running amok, you know," Jackson said.

Some Democrats in Congress have criticized several federal regulations enacted in the waning months of the Bush administration and are discussing whether some should be repealed when President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January.

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MUSIC:A Social Introspection Of Present Haitian Music, Part 1

If anyone is familiar with Stanley Crouch and his history in the American jazz scene, and if anyone is familiar with his dismissal/revocation from JazzTimes after his statements that the jazz scene is a "union of white people" committed to "the elevation of white jazz musicians over their black betters."

Being that Stanley Crouch has been a staunch critic of the jazz scene, sometimes praising and often times berating, he has become an impresario of sorts for jazz.

He has defined jazz within narrow limits—a music that doesn't stray far from the blues or the techniques that have traditionally produced it, musicians who never, ever forget where and how the sound was born. One doesn't have to be black to find a groove but one must be willing to bow to the "Negro aesthetic." He is convinced that the white establishment resents a musical history from which it can't help but feel alienated, and so champions jazz that sounds "white" instead of jazz that looks backward. In this view, the desire to innovate past swing is tantamount to fearing its origins and the people who created it. The lines between the advancement of a music and the rejection of its history become entangled in the vast mire of racial politics.

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ALERT:U.S. Govt. Pays Millions For Unapproved Drugs

WASHINGTON – Taxpayers have shelled out at least $200 million since 2004 for medications that have never been reviewed by the government for safety and effectiveness but are still covered under Medicaid, an Associated Press analysis of federal data has found. Millions of private patients are taking such drugs, as well.

The availability of unapproved prescription drugs to the public may create a dangerous false sense of security. Dozens of deaths have been linked to them.

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2 Die In Haiti Helicopter Crash, Fla. Ids Found

(RTTNews) - A helicopter crashed into a lagoon between the Haitian coastal cities of St. Marc and Gonaives, killing two Americans onboard, after taking off from an unknown location outside the Caribbean island-nation earlier Tuesday, media reports said.

The two Americans, aged 51 to 66, were aboard the Ranger chopper, according to documents found at the scene of the crash, an investigator said.

He said the aircraft had not taken off from Haitian soil, as authorities had not issued any permission for the helicopter's flight path.

Authorities found two Florida drivers' licenses in the wreckage near the town of Bocozelle, but have not been able to identify the killed. The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince was informed of the crash Tuesday, and officials were working to verify the citizenship of those aboard, embassy spokeswoman Mari Tolliver said.

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