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Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff One Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.

And welcome to activists around the world and to close out Black History Month, but not to say we won't continue to talk about the many people from the black community who have and continue to use their art and activism and voice to do so much and improve the world, because you know we will.

But to close out for this specific time frame, we are finishing up with artist, activist,

Ida Molinae, who is an Ethiopian photographer, educator, and so much more.

Though born in Addis, Adaba, Ethiopia, Molinay has been a traveler around the world, spending a chunk of her childhood in Cyprus, Greece, UK, Yemen, and eventually in Canada, where she would attend high school.

Except this time in high school, she first starts her venture in photography.

She would then go on to Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she would major in film. From there, she went on to work for the

Washington Post as a photojournalist. Now, I'm not really talking much about her time there, but

apparently, according to the many articles, she would use black and white photography for

photojournalism, but would later go on to all of her exhibits with being very colorful and

vibrant. And she did say at one point that she just felt like when she was a photojournalist,

she was seeing in black and white. And then the trans... So I just thought that was an interesting

little tidbit. But in that, in her Wikipedia article, they write that she was encouraged by her

grandfather to step fully into her artwork. Quote, although Malaney began shooting photographs

in high school, she did not imagine it as a career until her grandfather, who lived in

Ethiopia, came to visit her family. He had served

in the Ethiopian Air Force and enjoyed painting in his spare time. He saw something in her work

and told her to continue work as an artist rather than putting off her passion as a hobby.

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