I had the chance to travel to New York City a few weeks ago and one of the things I wanted to do was to go see some art. Of course I went to the MOMA and the Metropolitan Art Museum, which by the way has a few examples of [...]
My journey to Ethiopian culture
I had the chance to travel to New York City a few weeks ago and one of the things I wanted to do was to go see some art. Of course I went to the MOMA and the Metropolitan Art Museum, which by the way has a few examples of [...]
“Mother’s Duty” by Kenyan artist Joseph Cartoon.
If you live in the US and have adopted a child from Ethiopia, you probably already know the story of Hana. The trial of Hana’s adoptive parents is happening these days in Washington State and all the chilling details of [...]
”Look at the children of the land leaving in droves, leaving their own land with bleeding wounds on their bodies and shock on their faces and blood in their hearts and hunger in their stomachs and grief in their footsteps. Leaving their mothers and fathers and children behind, leaving their [...]
Last night I watched the documentary Dark Girls that was recently aired on OWN. The film explores the concept of colorism, that is the discrimination of people based on their skin color. The difference with racism, is that colorism happens also between people of the same race, the darker the [...]