I have spent a lot of time thinking about this specifically after playing an active role in the movement for Tigrayan freedom for over 5 years, and a multitude of other horrors that have also unfolded in the world since. Particularly because the genocide that my people have endured at the hands of Ethiopian and Eritrean forces has made me feel the suffering of other victims of human rights abuses so deeply and viscerally and in ways I never thought possible. But the deep sym

After the devastating defeat of the 2024 presidential election, that felt so crushing, terrifying and personal and the chaos that has...

"The demon blood, asckakache Knnegger Tigray came to toot someone's horn. Once a tight always a Tigrat" "When you get the fuck out of...

Buried underneath all the headlines is one of if not the worst humanitarian disaster on the planet---the hunger crisis in Tigray,...

All of the support that the Palestinians receive, support that transcends the Arab and Muslim worlds by the way, has been, in a word,...

The atrocities of the war on Tigray (northern Ethiopia) has led to 600,000+ dead, 120,000+ women and girls raped, total destruction of...

The war on Tigray had been going on officially for two years (with conflict persisting after the peace agreement was signed). Two years...

As we Africans, blacks in the diaspora, and other socially conscious people commemorate the Rwandan genocide from the 1990s, we are all...

I was really holding off on writing about Tigray not because I don't love or feel a connection to it ( I wear a Tigray necklace and a...

Today something happened that should be a stain on American history, through a highly politicized congressional hearing Ilhan Omar was...

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I have said and alluded to many times on my blog the fact that I think America's priorities generally are out of whack and I don't think...

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We all chase different dreams in our life but without exception the one we all have in common is happiness. I think in an overwhelming,...

The government needs to be prepared for whatever may come after this election. Trump is a very sick, unstable man and I wouldn't put...

I've come to realize that the best way to heal is to channel the pain from a traumatic experience into a cause to help people who are or...