If you have a boy, sooner or later you will take him for a haircut at a barbershop. Barbershops are the masculine equivalent of the women beauty parlors, places not only to trim your hair, but also to gather to chat and socialize. [...]

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Before this film is retired, I encourage every prospective adoptive parent to watch “Girl, Adopted” online for free. The film is very honest and real. It portraits very accurately how an older adopted child experience adoption and the difficulties she has to adjust to a new family. [...]

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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 [...]

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A while ago I wrote about a short film by Vicent Moon, Circus Debre Berhan that was part of a series about Ethiopia. Now you can watch the whole series Now Ethiopia on Vimeo. This is the list of films and the links: [...]

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