How We Treat Black Immigrants in America Should Matter

One in every ten Black people in America is <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/01/27/key-findings-about-black-immigrants-in-the-u-s/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">an immigrant</a>, and that rate is <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/02/01/black-immigrant-population-surging-in-us" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">expected to increase</a> over the next few decades. Thanks to this new wave of Black African migration, the story of Black people in America is evolving like a split pea. On one end, you have Black Americans whose ancestors were forced to endure <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity/2022/04/14/black-americans-family-history-slavery-and-knowledge-of-black-history/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">generations of slavery</a>, and Jim Crow and, as a result, have spent <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,828001,00.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">over a hundred years</a> fighting for racial equity. And on the other side, you have Black immigrants who often come to America in search of a better life, typically brought about by sociopolitical or financial hardship in their homelands or through an entrepreneurial spirit. As a result, the Black diaspora has become more culturally diverse and potentially more powerful as long as Black immigrants and Black Americans remember they’re two sides of the same split pea. <a href="https://momentum.medium.com/how-we-treat-black-immigrants-in-america-should-matter-2fe4a33d64cc">Read More</a>