John C. Robinson was an influential Black pilot and one of the founding members of the Tuskegee Airmen, who served as commander in the Italy-Ethiopian war.
A TikTok user named Kalkidan told a cautionary tale about the dark side of international adoption in Ethiopia.
(Network Journal) — The government of Israel announced earlier this month that it will bring 8,000 more Ethiopian black Jews, known commonly as Falashas, from Ethiopia to Israel. Those awaiting the airlift are currently living in the Ethiopian city of Gondar. There, they receive aid services from the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry and […]
(NY Times) — In that modest two-room office off East 125th Street, the Abyssinian Fund, the only nongovernmental organization in Ethiopia formed by an African-American church, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, finally has a home. Mr. Richards, 26, an assistant minister at Abyssinian under the Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, is the president of […]
(NYT) — From a 542-square-foot office above a bustling intersection in Harlem, the Rev. Nicholas S. Richards is building what he hopes will be a 7,000-mile bridge to the eastern highlands of Ethiopia. It is a bridge more than 200 years in the making. In that modest two-room office off East 125th Street, the Abyssinian […]