do not forget your lineage, do not shrink, do not bend yourself, do not shift your tongue for anyone. whenever you forget who you are, remember the history you have inherited.
now, speak.
// ijeoma umebinyuo
Author: noavi
the first story i wrote + photographed for THE NEW YORK TIMES made the front page of the international edition.
i’m overwhelmed.
read the digital version in the post below.
my new story is up on THE NEW YORK TIMES here
written + photographed by me
thank you to all the brave people who gave me their time
haven’t uploaded a moleskine page in a while
« what have you ever traveled toward
more than your own safety? »
-excerpt from LUCILLE CLIFTON‘s
“four notes to clark kent: further note to clark”
i am my own nation
my ancestors within me
i’m proud to be a contributing reporter on this story for THE NEW YORK TIMES by MALIN FEZEHAI
In the state of Israel’s early years, a number of parents in immigrant transit camps were told that their babies had died. Their families believe the babies were abducted by the Israeli authorities in the 1950s, and were illegally put up for adoption to childless Ashkenazi families, Jews of European descent. A younger generation is demanding answers.
«Last year I traveled to Israel to interview families who have been mired in what is known as the “Yemenite Children Affair,” where there were over 1,000 official reported cases of missing babies and toddlers, though some estimates from advocates are as high as 4,500. The children who disappeared were mostly from the Yemenite and other “Mizrahi” communities, an umbrella term coined in Israel for Jews from North Africa and the Middle East. While the Israeli government is trying to be more transparent about the disappearances, to this day, it denies that there were systematic abductions.» – MALIN FEZEHAI
read the story in full HERE
oldie but a goodie
“it’s the anxiety that is your subject matter.
it’s the desire to make something authentic and new, and that insecurity surrounding authenticity that is the subject matter.”
– KEHINDE WILEY
on « Touré Show » episode – Kehinde Wiley: How To Make It In Art