I got a note from a longtime friend, South Carolina activist Kevin Gray, who recently went to Haiti to help out as well as get educated on what really is going on. It said: ” I ran into some of your people in Port-au-Prince.”
Now, I’m not from Haiti so I was in a bit of a quandary as to what Kevn was talking about, but it turns out that a few close friends from Howard University have been in Haiti doing what they can with the skills they’ve been blessed with. So a very public shout out to Dr. Broderick Franklin and Dr. Greg Banks - both HU contemporaries and hang out partners who very quietly do what they do every day without fanfare.
And to all others who’ve lent a hand in any way they could - THANKS! — Eric Easter
Tags: Haiti, HBCU, Howard University
June 9th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Haiti is in a real mess after that devastating earthquake. They are our brothers and sisters in the french Caribbean . We should really lend a helping hand. Good for your people. It certainly could have happen to us. Natural disaster cannot be controlled. We have no control over the laws of nature but we have control over our own lives and finances and once there is someone in need we should be willing to assist them once it is in our power to do so. January 2010 really bought Haiti down but we need to join hands and hearts and lift Haiti up