I was scrolling through photos on social media of my cousins and teenage nieces at a Black Lives Matter protest when it struck me. As I looked at them in face masks, puffy black hair standing tall, I realized how far we Haitian Americans have come in proclaiming our American Blackness.
Yes, we're Black people. We hail from the first Black-led republic in the modern world. But, for us and many other Black immigrants, "Black" in America has often meant African American. And with our unique history and experiences across the diaspora, most of us, even with American citizenship, recognize that the term "African American" is not ours to claim.
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I was scrolling through photos on social media of my cousins and teenage nieces at a Black Lives Matter protest when it struck me. As I looked at them in face masks, puffy black hair standing tall, I realized how far we Haitian Americans have come in proclaiming our [...]
