by Guy Delva
For New Pittsburgh Courier

PORT-AU-PRINCE (NNPA)—Many Haitians are still in desperate straits—and some even say they feel forgotten—as they crave for food, shelter and other basic needs two months after a devastating earthquake left more than 220,000 people dead in the Caribbean country that is now struggling to recover from the disaster and to rebuild.

“I pray every day for someone to give me a tent. I have 5 children, including a 7 month-old. When it rains everybody gets wet,” said Joceline Magloire, 37.  “This situation is unbearable. I heard that a lot of people are collecting money on behalf of Haiti. Why don’t they buy those tents and ship them to us here,” she said angrily.

ON THE GROUND IN HAITI—Guy Delva, a native Haitian who is secretary general of the Haitian press group, SOS Journalists, is now an occasional Haiti correspondent for the NNPA News Service.

Week of March 26-April 1

March 26

1831—The founder of the AME Church, Richard Allen, dies at age 71 in Philadelphia, Pa. As its first bishop, Allen set the African Methodist Episcopal Church on the path to becoming the first Black religious denomination in America to be fully independent of White control. He, in effect, chartered a separate religious identity for African-Americans. He also founded schools throughout the nation to teach Blacks. This includes Allen University in Columbia, S.C.

MARIAH CAREY, JESSE OWENS, MARVIN GAYE

by Bruce Shipkowski
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP)—A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all Black people in a southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said March 22.

The boy, whose name is not being released because he is a juvenile, grabbed one of the courtesy phones at Walmart’s Washington Township store last Sunday evening and calmly announced: “Attention, Walmart customers: All Black people, leave the store now,” police said.

by Brian E. Muhammad
For New Pittsburgh Courier

(NNPA)—Syndicated radio talk show host Warren Ballentine recently got an increase in threats for his on air interview with the Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam.

Ballentine, who is also an attorney, interviewed the outspoken leader March 2 on a daily mid-morning radio show after he delivered his annual Saviour’s Day address Feb. 28, in Chicago.