Your Black Life: CHANGE (The Barack Obama Song) — By Manze Dayila

Haitian New Yorker, Manze Dayila was inspired to write a song about Barack Obama after being invited to perform at a rally in her New York neighborhood. Inspiration struck in the shower, and the rest is now history on YouTube. “When I look at Barack Obama and listen to him speak, I can see and hear his determination for change,” says Dayila. “We are all children of the world, deserve to live better, have better education, better health care. I believe in his message that war is not the answer. I think he can change our situation into a better one. I think this is change we all need.”

CHANGE (The Barack Obama Song):

Manze Sayila recently released “Solé,” her debut CD on the As Is Entertainment, Inc. record label. The single is available for free download at: http://www.manzedayila.com

Your Black World Headlines: 11/10/2008

New Front Opens In DR Congo, Increasing Fears Of Wider Conflict

Search For Survivors In Haiti School Collapse Shrinking Hopes

Colorado Defeats Ward Connerly & Affirmative Action Ban

Another Black Man Attacked For Supporting Obama?

Florida School Keeps KKK Founder’s Name

Black Children: Nation’s Most Obese

Racism At Prop 8 Protests

Your Black News: Haiti School Collapse Kills At Least 82

The death toll from the Friday school collapse in Haiti climbed to 82 on Saturday, with 107 injured, Haiti President Rene Preval reported cited by Haitian Press Network.

Rescue workers found early Saturday 21 bodies in a classroom, all believed to be students from one class.

It is not known how many students were in the school when it collapsed Friday morning, but reports say that anywhere between 500 and 700 children and teenagers typically crowded into the three-story concrete building of College La Promesse.

Most of the students at the school ranged in age from 10 to 20, officials said, but some are younger. Haitian press reports said kindergarten, primary and secondary students attended the school.

The school is in an extremely poor part of town and the roads are nearly impassable. A United Nations helicopter was unable to land in the area […]

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Your Black World Headlines: 10/30/2008

Haitians Flee Dominican Republic In Wake Of Violence

Rebel Fighting In Congo Causes Massive Migration

Obama Effigy Hung In University of Kentucky

Black Heart Patients Treated Unequally

Weapon Found In Hudson Murders

Marion Jones Appears On ‘Oprah’

Your Black World Headlines: 10/28/2008

UN Seeks $60 Million+ For Haiti

Police Seek Clues In Hudson Deaths

Landmark Victory In Niger Slavery Case

Charles Barkley To Run For Governor’s Office

Gabrielle Union Addresses Breast Cancer In Ghana

Police Chief Says Isiah Thomas Lying About Overdose

Lil Wayne Signs With Roc Nation In Multi-Million Dollar Deal

Your Black World Headlines: 10/27/2008

Black Scholar Disheartened By CNN’s New Hughley Show

Africa Leaders Meet To End Zimbabwe Political Conflicts

Obama Expresses Concern Over Hudson Murders

Haiti Potentially Debt-Free By Mid-2009

Voter Purging Taking Place In Across Country

Acorn Sues New Mexico GOP For Voter Intimidation

Terrence Howard Sued For Broadway Attack On Composer

Your Black World Headlines: 10/06/2008

Haiti Refuses U.S. Deportees

UK: Blacks Boycott ‘Hostile & Racist’ Metropolitan Police

Jamaicans Eating Less Than 39% Of Locally-Produced Food

Hip-Hop Caucus Registers More Than 30K Voters

Colin Powell To Speak For Africa At ThisDay Festival

Your Black Life: Haiti Homeless Count Reaches One Million

Haiti’s Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis has said that a series of storms may have left as many as one million Haitians without a home.

Ms Pierre-Louis, who has called on the international community to more assistance, said part of the city of Gonaives might have to be moved.

She said the whole country has been devastated by four storms which struck in just over three weeks.

The problem was too great for Haiti to deal with on its own, she added.

“We need major support and it is time for the world to understand that,” she said.

“We’ve suffered too much in this country.”

Strong winds and torrential rains over the past month have battered Haiti’s already fragile infrastructure and left more than 550 people dead.

Ms Pierre-Louis told the BBC that part of the city of Gonaives, which was almost completely destroyed by the hurricanes, may now have to be built elsewhere.

She also admitted that unless victims of the storms receive more help, rising discontent could force her from office.

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Your Black News: Following Hurricane, Haitian City Goes For Days Without Aid

Annette Benjamin tried to wait out the storm in her modest home. But when the floods came, the walls collapsed around her. Neighbors pulled the 53-year-old to safety, but everything she owned was gone.

For the next four days, Benjamin waded through the stinking river Rue Cristophe had become, trying not to step on the bodies buried in the muck. She was among tens of thousands desperately searching for food and clean water in a city of 160,000 that had less and less of both.

Help finally arrived Friday in the form of a giant container ship delivering the first aid to Gonaives since Tropical Storm Hanna hit. One of Benjamin’s daughters, a policewoman, had arranged for her to catch a ride to the capital on the ship’s way back.

“I almost died. My house is destroyed. I lost everything,” Benjamin said. “I cannot stay in Gonaives anymore, because they say the storms are going to return again.”

Indeed, Hurricane Ike, a dangerous Category 3 storm, was swirling in the Atlantic with 120-mph winds, and forecasters said it would almost certainly bring more rain to the region over the weekend…

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