Throughout March 2021, the Making African America Symposium brought together fifty-three scholars, journalists, activists, curators, filmmakers and writers to discuss how immigration has shaped and is continuing to reshape what it means to be black in the United States.
This panel discussion brought together renowned authors whose cultural roots span the African diaspora. They discuss their use of the written word as a medium to communicate black immigrant experiences, including the complexity of encounters with other black Americans in the United States. This panel features: Dinaw Mengestu, author; Edwidge Danticat, author; Elizabeth Acevedo, poet and author; and Moderator: Joanne Hyppolite, National Museum of African American History and Culture.
