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MLK: “When Will You Be Satisfied?”[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [MLK] gave his “I Have a Dream Speech” in August 1963, he asked the “devotees of civil rights” a simple rhetorical question: “When will you be satisfied?”
One of his answers was particularly poignant....
Mumbai Marathon: It’s Ethiopians Abera, Dinknesh’s day out [THE HINDU]
A host of Ethiopian marathon runners led by Tesfaye Abera and Dinknesh Mekash, rekindled memories of the legendary Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bikila who, running barefoot, captured the imagination of the world by winning the 1960 Rome Olympics...
Exposed: Prof. Constantinos Berhe has two fake degrees [By Abebe Gellaw]
A lengthy Addis Voice investigation can reveal that Dr. Constantinos Berhe, a professor of public policy at the Addis Ababa University (AAU) and a key operative of the ruling TPLF-led regime, obtained two fake degrees from a bogus university....
British MPs to visit Ethiopia in bid to secure release of Andy Tsege [THE INDEPENDENT]
JONATHAN OWEN
A delegation of British MPs will visit Ethiopia next month in a bid to secure the release of Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, a British father of three who is under a death sentence.
Mr Tsege, 59, a leading critic...
Antioch girl raises $2,000 toward expansion of Ethiopian school for orphans [Contra Costa Times]
By Nate Gartrell
ANTIOCH — For many teenagers living in the Bay Area, a 16th birthday party could mean receiving a new car or a laptop computer, or at least being showered with gifts cards from friends and family. But Nubia Wilson of Antioch...