** Please check Keni Burke – “Rising to the Top” for those who need a little help with the song reference. ** After being in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico since last Saturday morning, I was pretty eager to get the show on the road and Thursday night’s competition couldn’t come soon enough. I had gotten to watch [...]

This past Friday I had the opportunity to spend a few hours at the Haitian Embassy, considered to be Haitian soil, for an event put on by the National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians, in conjunction with the Haitian Sports Foundation and the US Olympic Committee. The event was a prelude to a solidarity [...]

As you can all imagine, it has been a particularly difficult week, given the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday. My family was indeed affected by the tragedy, and though we still have not had direct contact with my relatives on the island, we have received news that most of my relatives are “ok.” [...]