Laura Kebede-Twumasi

“The cases in our region that we plan to investigate as part of the Civil Wrongs project were often trivialized by journalists at the time. Reporters often took officials’ statements without question while disregarding Black voices that dared to…

I turned 30 years old in the midst of a pandemic and some of the nation’s largest protests against racial injustice and police brutality. My grandpa turned 30 years old as a soldier in the Vietnam War…

Debates about monuments honoring Confederate icons and what they represent often come down to one’s view of Civil War history. Last weekend’s violent gathering of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one protester dead, was…

BY LAURA KEBEDE Richmond Times-Dispatch I once convinced a Tunisian guard I was Tunisian to avoid a foreigner’s fee at a museum. All it took was sunglasses to hide my hazel eyes and a Tunisian friend to, eh, explain that I was deaf. In Cambodia, I…

Last December, I interviewed five children in the Takeo province of Cambodia and talked with several of more than 40 others at A Greater Hope Orphanage. Each had a story about escaping poverty, neglect or abuse. The International Labour Organization…