Sunday, September 30, 2007

Tracy McGrady of Houston Rockets visits Darfur

McGrady on Africa: 'I knew I had to go'
After a journey to refugee camps in Chad, NBA All-Star vows to spread the word about atrocities in Darfur

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5175640.html

There was so much Tracy McGrady did not know. Not then, not in the beginning.

The Houston Rockets star had seen the news reports about the atrocities in the Darfur region of western Sudan, where a genocide has left hundreds of thousands of people dead and millions more homeless and living in bleak desert camps.

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This is a great article in the Houston Chronicle, do give it a read. Kudos to Tracy McGrady.