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Imagine for a minute if the horrors of the holocaust and the terrors unleashed at Buchenwald and Auschwitz were retold through a new blockbuster Hollywood movie. But instead of the victims looking like the Jews in Europe that were brutalized by the Nazi crime machine, imagine if the lead actors and the heroins of the
Read article below #AdwaSpring17 Veni vidi vici. These were the words once uttered by a Roman tyrant named Caesar as he would go on to conquer most of the “known” world through a combination of brute force and overwhelming technological superiority. These two factors, brute force and industrial supremacy, have enabled a few to subjugate the
“Most of the stone a nation hammers goes towards its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some booby, whom it would
It seems that I am perhaps attempting to do two things that are at odds with one another. See, not too long ago, I used to be as tribal as they come without really knowing it. My affinity for “my own” was such a part of my identity that I saw the virtues of justice
This week’s Ghion cast focuses on identity and the labels and words we ascribe to that serve as a means of marginalizing us and dehumanizing our existence. Listen to the Ghion Cast below and make sure you read the article “We are Not Black” which covers this topic in further detail by clicking HERE. Share on
This is a conversation that our black leader refuse to have, notice this time I did not use any quote marks. What you are about to view in the video and the write up after the write up below the video embed is one that is extremely uncomfortable for I am going right at the
I used to say all the time that our names truly are our destinies. But back then it was an observation that I made without necessarily understanding the sheer gravity our names have on the trajectory of our lives. It was not until right before my life crumbled apart as I was on the last
This is the second installment of Ghion Cast, a weekly broadcast where host Teodrose Fikre discusses history, politics, culture, faith and love in an informal dialogue with the Ghion Cast audience. The aim of the broadcast and the reason these five areas are specifically discussed is because, at the core, we the people have been
It seems that culture and modernity are mutually exclusive. As a people chase acceptance and the glitter of materialism, what suffers over and over again is the culture that once defined us. I know it seems like I’m about to walk head first into the brick wall of contradictions when I’ve been arguing for weeks
