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RASHAD ROULHAC ON THE CAPE VERDEAN AMERICAN EXHIBIT OF A LIFETIME

FEATURED, INTERVIEWS / By MarilynFilms.com

Cape Verdean American visionary Rashad Roulhac can now place “Artist” under his ever growing list of creative titles. Rashad is an award winning director and producer of The Cape Verdean American Film Festival and online talk show Coffee With Kriolas. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Fables & Fairy Tales of Cape …

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RASHAD ROULHAC’S MAGNIFICENT AUTHORIAL DEBUT: FABLES AND FAIRY TALES OF CAPE VERDE

FEATURED, FILM, INTERVIEWS / By MarilynFilms.com

Rashad Roulhac is Cape Verdean American and is broadly known for his endeavors in filmmaking and more so as the founder and director of The Cape Verdean American Film Festival (CVAFF). However, Rashad’s latest creative and artistic venture isn’t filmmaking, it’s literary. Yes, Rashad Roulhac has now distinguished himself as an author as well. His …

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CAPE VERDE’S FAILED HEALTH CARE: ITS 21ST CENTURY PLAGUE

FEATURED / By MarilynFilms.com

It’s shocking an horrific that Cape Verde’s failed health care system has claimed another victim, but it is, unfortunately, not surprising. The latest victim’s name is Sandra. Though little was publicly known about Sandra, her image had been circulating for about a month now on social media as the Cape Verdean community on Facebook sought …

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CAPE VERDE’S FAILING AND BUREAUCRATIC HEALTH CARE: THE CAUSE OF A FOUR YEAR OLD GIRL’S DEATH

FEATURED / By MarilynFilms.com

The social media outcry among Cape Verdeans has probably never been this resounding and intense. The reason for this outcry is the death of four year old girl, Sharon Alina Silva Lopes. Six months ago, in March, Sharon was checked into Hospital Baptista Sousa, the hospital on the island on São Vicente, Cape Verde. According …

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THE BARREL: A LIFELINE FOR CAPE VERDEANS, AN EXPLOITATIVE CASH COW FOR THEIR GOVERNMENT

FEATURED / By MarilynFilms.com

Perhaps nothing signifies the grand generosity of Cape Vedean immigrants to their families and countrymen more than the “bidon.” That is, the gasoline barrels/drums, pictured above. From the time Cape Verdean immigration history began being documented, in the late 1700’s to the early 1800’s, starting in Brava, Cape Verde, to the United States of America, …

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