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Rebecca Haile, co-founder & executive director of the U.S.-based Ethiopia Education Initiatives, Inc., has been elected Chair of EMILY’s List.

Dr. Sossina will receive the award on Thursday, December 3rd at the 2020 MRS Meeting, where she will also present her lecture, Superprotonic Solid Acids for Sustainable Energy Technologies.

“Movement,” which is also a podcast and live show, is created and produced by Meklit Hadero.

Antony Blinken has weighed in publicly on notable foreign policy issues in Egypt and Ethiopia. Blinken served as deputy to former national security adviser Susan Rice during the Obama admin.

This year’s election saw not only an active participation of Ethiopian American voters across the country, but also the growing political power of the community as more Ethiopians were elected into office.

Ethiopia has congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their landmark U.S. election win.

University of Toronto Ethiopic program soars past $500,000 endowment goal on strength of community support and another gift from The Weeknd.

Tadias hosted a timely discussion on civic engagement and voter mobilization on Sunday, October 25th featuring a new generation of Ethiopian American leaders from various professions.

Ethiopian-Americans for Biden-Harris, which supports the candidacy of Former Vice-President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris, will be hosting an online conversation next week.

Dr. Wuleta Lemma, an Ethiopian American health care entrepreneur representing Ethiopia, is the CEO of Lalibela Global-Networks.

American pilot Col. John Robinson is best known for his heroic commanding of Ethiopian Air Force during the war against Fascist Italy.

Unfortunately the male-dominated Diaspora Ethiopian media is already attacking Sen. Kamala Harris as “ሴቷ ኦባማ” (as if that’s an insult) displaying their deeply ingrained misogynistic attitudes.

The timely album by Endeguena Mulu — Ethiopian Records — is aptly titled Wel ‘ወል’ (togetherness) and is inspired by Tsegaye Gebremedhin’s poem Aba Geda.

Empress Taytu has been honored by the African Union as a Legendary Black Women on Africa’s Women’s Day that was held online on Friday, July 31st.

This weekend Trace Muzika, a channel dedicated to non-stop music from Ethiopia and its Diaspora will launch on the online streaming service habeshaview.

Enkopa is a timely new feature film based on the true story of a young Ethiopian migrant at the mercy of unscrupulous traffickers.

Experts estimate that the U.S. will need to hire hundreds of thousands of contact tracers in the months and years ahead.

This year as Ethiopian Americans we will be voting in one of the most consequential elections.

Bekoji has a small population, but it has produced some of Ethiopia’s greatest runners, like two-time Olympic gold medallist Derartu Tulu and sisters Tirunesh and Genzebe Dibaba.

Ruth Negga made history by becoming the first black Ophelia at the National Theatre in London. Negga then took on an equally complex role as the title character in Hamlet.

Bethelhem is co-founder and CEO of Zafree Papers, a company that is introducing a 100% tree-free paper pulp made from agricultural waste.

Last week Ethiopian-Americans marched from the State Department to the Lincoln Memorial to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Board of Directors of Bikila Award — the organization which has been spearheading the fundraising campaign since 2015 — released a report last week detailing its efforts.

Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has reshaped the November election.

From day one of this global health crisis — Marcus Samuelsson has been at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19 that has so far claimed more than 100,000 American lives.

This past month Tebita announced their launch of new services in Addis Abeba to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

Judge Nina Ashenafi was automatically reelected to the Leon County bench in Florida after her lone opponent dropped out, saying the coronavirus crisis made it too difficult to proceed.

We hear from renowned New York City and Berlin based Ethiopian- American painter Julie Mehretu on this episode of The Quarantine Tapes.

Prof. Lemma, an Ethiopian-American financial economist, explains the worldwide economic fallout of the Coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the African continent, including Ethiopia.

In New York City, which has now become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, working as a medical professional means literally going to a “war zone,” says physician Tsion Firew.

The Ethiopian-American owned tech Company PhantomALERT is offering a free app to track, report and map COVID-19 outbreak hotspots in realtime.

A new, different type of coronavirus test is coming that will help significantly in the fight to quell the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors and scientists say.

In a country of more than 100 million people, just 54 ventilators — out of around 450 total — had been set aside for COVID-19 patients as of this week.

Here at Tadias as we continue covering news among the Ethiopian Diaspora, amid the COVID-19 pandemic from our lockdown in New York City, we’re reassured of the indomitable human spirit.

In order to support frontline medical workers combatting COVID-19 in Ethiopia, efforts are also being made in the Diaspora by People to People, Inc. (P2P) to assist first responders.

There’s been a rapid escalation of COVID-19 cases over the past week, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

The Academy announced that Mengiste is among 19 writers who will receive this year’s awards in literature.

Established in 1993, SEED is one of the oldest Ethiopian Diaspora organizations in the United States.

Organizers stress that the goal of the program is to break the silence and to “create a space to enable frank discussion.

Adiskidan Ambaye is “an Ethiopian American artist based in Addis Ababa that does product design, furniture, paintings & sculptures.”

Little Ethiopia in Las Vegas will also become the first officially designated cultural neighborhood in Nevada, and only the second Little Ethiopia neighborhood in the United States.

The festival program features several acclaimed Ethiopian and Ethiopian-American artists, musicians, and writers.

Fayise describes her music style as “traditional Ethiopian mixed with jazz and soul.” She sings and plays the krar… and leads a band that includes guitar, drums, bass and vocals.

Eden Alene became the first Israeli of Ethiopian descent chosen to represent the country at Eurovision when she won Hakokhav Haba (The Next Star) for Eurovision 2020 on Tuesday night.

Many of the meatpackers are immigrants, largely of Ethiopian origin or descent — not the corn-fed farmers typically associated in the popular imagination with the Iowa caucuses.

Naturally, most of the restaurants in this neighborhood serve traditional Ethiopian cuisine but even that is beginning to evolve.

Ezra Wube’s Show titled Project Junction is set to open at The Africa Center in New York City this coming week.

Ethiopian-American Tecle Gebremichael was a candidate for a City Council seat in Boise City, Idaho last year. He was Boise’s first refugee from Africa to run for local office.

The incredibly popular Obamas will be leaving Washington next year for a five-city tour.

Next month Ruth will make her NYC debut at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse, where Hamlet is scheduled for its American premiere on February 1st and set for a five-week run through March 8th.

Ayele Solomon grew up drinking homemade t’ej in Ethiopia. He incorporates some of that tradition in his California honey-wine production, but brings a more scientific approach.

The late fashion designer Amsale Aberra was featured as a fashion designer and entrepreneur alongside a list of women including Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris.

No Passport Required with Marcus Samuelsson kicks off season 2 on PBS January 20 featuring L.A.’s Armenian community.

America Magazine highlights the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) undertaking and what happens to cultural heritage during war and turmoil.

French explorer Jules Borelli produced detailed illustrated diaries of his travels in Ethiopia, where he often photographed people from the Amhara, Oromo and Sidama ethnic groups.

Addis Ababa-based artist Yemsrach Yetneberk on how the radical spread of the Ethiopian capital is changing neighbourhoods.

Named after the 3rd round of Ethiopian coffee ceremony, “Bereka” is a heart-stopping film of a family’s sudden departure from Gondar and the triumphant return of grandchildren to their ancestral home.

The son of Ethiopian refugees, Zahilay moved from Sudan to South Seattle at the age of three.

Ethiopia launched its first satellite into space on Friday. The satellite will be used for weather forecast and crop monitoring, officials said.

Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Ethiopians first started immigrating to the Las Vegas Valley in numbers in the late 1970s. Today, 40,000 call Las Vegas home, with more than 40 small businesses in the area.

This week, the honors student graduates from Georgia State with a new goal — to become a surgeon.

Blacks in AI, co-founded by Timnit Gebru & Rediet Abebe, advocates for diversity and inclusion in the technology sector — particularly in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Feedel Band is something of an Ethiopian jazz supergroup, made up of seven musicians with unique track records.

Democracy Now media features Yetnebersh Nigussie, a lawyer and disability rights activist from Ethiopia.

Freweini Mebrahtu — who is from Ethiopia and studied chemical engineering in the US — designed and patented a reusable menstrual pad in 2005.

Archaeologists now can more closely date when the religion spread to the Aksumite Empire.

Recently, we followed up with Dr. Bisrat Aklilu regarding the current status of EDTF’s fundraising efforts, challenges and their future plans.

With a trip to the Untitled fair in Miami, Addis Fine Art adds to the connections it’s building between Ethiopian artists and the rest of the world.

Law professor said Trump’s actions toward Ukraine meet constitutional definition of bribery Public impeachment hearings moved on Wednesday to the…

The U.S. screenings follow the film’s successful international premier in London this past October.

CBS News’ 60 Minutes explores Ethiopia’s historic Lalibela churches.

Ethiopian authorities say the Sidama people in the south have voted overwhelmingly in favor of regional statehood.

Time magazine picks Maaza Mengiste’s new novel, “The Shadow King” as one of 100 must-read books in 2019.

The five-year USD $63 million USAID Digital Health Activity will train end-users including doctors, nurses, health extension workers, and policy-makers at all levels of the health system.

The group call themselves “peace ambassadors”, and they are leading the way in putting a fractured and traumatised society back together again.

Sigdyada Festival is an annual celebration of Ethiopian and Ethiopian-Israeli culture.

On Friday morning, Mayor Muriel Bowser left for a five-day diplomatic and trade mission to Ethiopia.

Bogaletch Gebre, founder of the Ethiopian women rights organization KMG, passed away in Los Angeles, California on November 2nd, 2019.

House members on Wednesday revealed key documents from their investigation into the deadly crashes of two 737 Max jets in Indonesia and Ethiopia, pressing Boeing’s CEO for more answers.

Antu, who teaches Acting at Rutgers University, has been at the forefront of taking on charterers that highlight her immigrant roots.

‘Fig Tree’ is scheduled to make its U.S. theatrical premiere during the Washington Jewish Film Festival next week.

Youth Week is just one of the many events running alongside the main programme of the Social Enterprise World Forum which kicked off this week at Addis Ababa’s UN Conference Centre.

“Maaza Mengiste has written a brilliantly crafted character study in an epic, sprawling, cinematic time and place,” producers at the U.S. film company said.

Loza Tadesse and Iwnetim “Tim” Abate, Stanford engineering PhD students, returned home to Ethiopia this past summer to share their expertise with college students.

Royalty Pack is a collection of playing cards and T-shirts that reflect an authentic representation of the rich and diverse heritage of Africa’s many cultures,” the announcement notes.

The prize not only acknowledges the Ethiopian prime minister’s commitment to peace, but encourages him to do more.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country’s two-decade border conflict with Eritrea.

Artnet News website lists Addis Ababa among six dynamic emerging art capitals on the African continent.

The film focuses on age-old human behavior when it comes to love, sex, violence and the desire for vigilante justice while also reflecting on Ethiopia’s past traditional justice system.

Lelisa Desisa ran a flawless marathon to capture his first global title at the IAAF World Athletics Championships on Sunday.

Zion Taddese owns the Queen Sheba restaurant in Sacramento. She gets her teff from Idaho, which is slow to arrive and expensive. So she came up with the idea of growing teff in California.

The fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar has named Liya Kebede among 22 most stylish supermodels of all time.

In 1998, Sirak Asfaw, a Dutch civil servant who was born in Ethiopia, noticed something shiny in the suitcase of a guest who was staying at his house… a glittering gilded crown.

There are few artists who follow the news as closely as the painter Julie Mehretu does, and fewer still who directly mine it for their work.

Kenenisa Bekele scorched to a stunning 2:01:41 victory at the BMW Berlin Marathon today, the second fastest performance of the all-time.