Wyclef Jean’s Mission
When Wyclef Jean heard that Haiti had been hit by a 7.0 Richter earthquake on January 12th, he sprang into action. Jean, a proud Haitian by birth, a member of the diaspora that immigrated to the United States in the late 1970s, immediately went to Port-au-Prince to make himself useful. Upon arriving, his first instinct was to check in with Haitian president René Préval. "I landed the day after the quake," Jean says. "I looked into Préval's eyes, which were anguished. And he said, 'Man, you don't know what you're going...
- 9/2/2010
- by Douglas Brinkley
- Rollingstone.com
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