Tije is Not Dead 2:42 Crossing the BLVD
Haitian-American activist Ray Laforest reads a poem about his brother Tije, who died mysteriously in Haiti in the late 1990s. Judith Sloan, Scott Johnson and Warren Lehrer produced the piece. From the Crossing the BLVD series (book/CD); interviews from mostly immigrants and refugees who now live in Queens NY. [transcript]
Broadcast: Jun 1 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Crossing the BLVD Subjects: Politics, International, Family