When We See Each Other: Black Americans, African Immigrants

Radio Rookie Arame Sene came from Senegal in 2017. Until very recently, she didn't quite understand why black people in America identify as black--“why not African" like her, she wondered. Arame is surrounded by many Senegalese people both at home and in school, but her world is expanding. She is now constantly confronted by questions of identity she never had to consider before moving here, leading her to explore the complicated relationship between black Americans and African immigrants.

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