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Wyclef Jean Meets With Haiti's PresidentFri, 08/20/2010 - 06:46Haitian President Rene Preval met with presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean for more than two hours on Thursday, touching off a new round of speculation as to whether the singer will be allowed to run in Nov. 28 elections, the Associated Press reports. Jean told The Associated Press that he felt the exchange with Preval was positive. ...
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Haiti Postpones Ruling on Wyclef Jean's CandidacyWed, 08/18/2010 - 06:29The Associated Press http://www.thegrio.com/politics/haiti-postpones-ruling-on-wyclef-jeans-candidacy.php reports that Haiti's electoral commission said late Tuesday that it was postponing its ruling on who will be allowed to run for president in November elections, leaving hip hop artist Wyclef Jean's candidacy in limbo. A statement from the commission, known as the CEP, said it would postpone the announcement until Friday. The delay was the latest bizarre turn in t ...
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The Question Facing Haiti: Who Is Wyclef Jean?Mon, 08/09/2010 - 07:21The Associated Press reports that Wyclef Jean has many identities in Haiti. Street star. Scandal-plagued aid director. Ex-Fugees hip hop frontman. The moment he filed his candidacy, Wyclef Jean became the most famous -- and thus potentially most powerful -- candidate in Haiti's critical post-earthquake presidential election. ...
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Wyclef Jean Expected to Announce Run For Haiti President on Larry KingThu, 08/05/2010 - 07:03Even when he was a skinny kid at Vailsburg High School in Newark’s West Ward, Wyclef Jean let his ambitions consume him, the new jersey star ledger reports. His strict parents opened up a church and wanted nothing more than for young Jean to make the most of a free education he never would have received had his ...
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Wyclef Jean To Put Bid In For PresidencyWed, 08/04/2010 - 09:26Wyclef Jean is set to announce on Larry King Live on Thursday night that he will officially run to be president of Haiti, BlackVoices reports. Jean has completed all of the necessary documentation in order to be considered for the job. To run for president, an applicant must be Haitian-born and never have renounced the country's nationality. The candidate must also own at least one Haitian real estate property and had habitual residence in the country for at least five years b ...
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Diddy's flair for the finest spells trouble, but Bashir was wrongWed, 08/04/2010 - 00:00He's modeling poor money management to his son and to black America ...
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Wyclef Jean’s run for president of Haiti: Good intentions or opportunistic?Sat, 07/31/2010 - 00:00Why is Jean running for such a high office in the first place? ...
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Haiti’s Next President: Wyclef Jean?Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:29According to an article by the Gawker and various rumors floating around the celebrity water cooler, Wyclef Jean is apparently running for the position of the President of Haiti. The musician Wyclef is reported to announce his candidacy for President of Haiti in a newspaper whose source was someone close to the government in Port-au-Prince. Wyclef tweeted to his followers that he has not announced ...
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Is Bob Johnson investing in Haiti to Uplift or Oppress?Fri, 07/02/2010 - 00:00Oppression of the working poor doesn’t feel better just because a black man is doing it ...
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Gates Foundation Gives $10 Million Prize For Company To Bring Mobile Money To HaitiThu, 06/10/2010 - 10:57The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is using its financial clout to push the Haitian marketplace toward change by offering $10 million in prizes to the first companies to help Haitians send and receive money with their cell phones, the Associated Press reports. This time the foundation — and its partner, the U.S. Agency for International Development — wants to see the results first and ...
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Wyclef: "Trickery" used to bar him from election
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 11:49
Wyclef Jean plans to appeal claims made by election officials that ... -
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Wyclef Jean on presidential candidacy
Fri, 08/20/2010 - 08:36
CNN's Larry King talks to Wyclef Jean on his run for president of ... -
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Wyclef to run for president
Fri, 08/06/2010 - 08:28
Wyclef Jean announces on Larry King Live that he plans to run for ... -
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Be A Humanitarian
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 11:47
Haitian Singer/Songwriter Ricky Derose wrote this song for Haiti. ... -
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Wyclef helps rebuild Haiti
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 08:33
Wyclef Jean talks about Haiti's recovery. READ: ... -
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Sean Penn: Don't forget Haiti
Wed, 05/19/2010 - 10:48
Actor and activist Sean Penn has not forgotten about Haiti. Penn te ... -
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Soledad O'Brien on Haiti's children
Mon, 05/10/2010 - 10:53
CNN's Soledad O'Brien in her ongoing 'Rescued' documentary re ... -
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Students raise money for Haiti
Wed, 04/28/2010 - 00:00
Students stack dominoes to help raise money for Haiti. ... -
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Haitian camps dangerous for women
Tue, 03/16/2010 - 08:24
Camp life leaves no privacy to people and there have already been s ...
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