By Stacey Patton
The American media treats all human misery like pornography.

By Olympia Duhart
Shortly after the earthquake, the Obama administration granted temporary protected status, or TPS, for at least 100,000 Haitian immigrants living in the United States without proper documentation. The special status would also extend to about 30,000 Haitians who had been ordered deported. The status is only offered to Haitians in the United States as of January 12, 2010, the day the earthquake struck.

By Esther Armah
Ten white faces, bewildered and confused, emerge on the small screen. They are Americans from a Baptist missionary church in Idaho, arrested and accused of illegally taking 33 children out of Haiti, across the border to the Dominican Republic. Twenty of those children, it has been revealed, are not orphans. The SOS Children’s Villages, the group now caring for them, say they have parents.

By C. Nicole Mason, PhD
The earthquakes that rocked Haiti have brought many things into focus. Chief among them are Haiti’s extremely fragile infrastructure and the complex relationship between Haiti, the U.S. and other industrialized nations.

By Kristen Clarke: Just three years ago, the world watched in horror as news cameras exposed the devastation that washed over the City of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  The vast majority of the storm’s victims were African American, poor and marginalized, and their suffering played out in dramatic fashion on major [...]