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Haitian-American Novelist Edwidge Danticat Discusses The Big Read Miami Program

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03/10/16 - Thursday’s Topical Currentsbegins with Haitian-American novelist and short story author Edwidge Danticat.  Her acclaimed 2008 book, Brother, I’m Dying,” is part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read Miami program.

Also, in the second half of the program, LindaGassenheimerlooks behind the label of “organic” foods with the Today Show’s “Supermarket Guru,” Phil Lempert. That Topical Currents, Thursday at 1pm.

The Dominican Republic’s "Ethnic Purging": Edwidge Danticat on Mass Deportation of Haitian Families Video from Democracy Now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiBInynz6KI

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