Amsalu Kassaw came to the United States from Ethiopia 17 years ago. As he left, he feared arrest by the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, a left-wing paramilitary group then in charge of the ...

Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the ...

Bezabeh said Ethiopia, located in northeast Africa with a current population of more than 120 million, helped inspire American civil-rights leaders of the 19th and 20th centuries. It was one of ...

“It’s my way of adding my Black identity being a first generation Ethiopian American and infusing it with Black culture here,” Awake said. Awake is determined to remind audiences where basic ...

“I woke up and I still sort of felt in the world of Oz.” Kebede, a first-generation Ethiopian American from Los Angeles, spent five years touring with “Hamilton,” most recently in the ...

“I woke up and I still sort of felt in the world of Oz.” Kebede, a first-generation Ethiopian American from Los Angeles, spent five years touring with “Hamilton,” most recently in the role ...