Haiti's History Created Bond With Many U.S. Blacks

by Jesse Washington, AP National Writer , January 20, 2010

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Many Blacks in her district have offered their assistance and expertise to the relief effort, and she said “many find it perplexing that there's a nation with this much poverty so close to America.”

That includes Toussaint Tabb: “Had not that quake happened, I wonder if anybody would be talking about Haiti.”

The 20-year-old was named Jerrell Toussaint Tabb by his parents. As a youngster, he was embarrassed by his middle name, until he learned its origins.

A few years ago, he started using Toussaint as his first name.

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