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Sarah Legesse identifies as Eritrean first, then African, then Black. But she understands that in the U.S., she’s Black first.
She’d never thought about her race before her family left Eritrea, in 2012, for a mostly white Philadelphia suburb with a small Black community. But time and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement a year later helped her understand her place in the American racial system and her responsibility to fight for racial equity.
“[Black immigrants and their children] have a responsibility, not just towards Black Americans, but towards ourselves,” Legesse, 21, an international relations major at American University, tells
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BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia’s government called on Tuesday for a credible and transparent investigation into the shooting death of one of its citizens by U.S. police in the state of Georgia last Friday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said in a statement on Friday that it had been asked by the police department in the town of Snellville to investigate an officer involved in the shooting of a driver following a car chase.
The GBI identified the driver on Tuesday as Momodou Lamin Sisay, who lived in the nearby town of Lithonia. Sisay, 39, is the son of Lare Sisay, a Gambian diplomat who also worked for the U.N. Development Programme.