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Being black is not a singular experience

Within our community, we know that being black means much more than that and that our understandings of and experiences with our blackness manifest in very different ways. When my friends and I talk about blackness, it’s clear that, to us, being black is neither easily understood nor does it have a single meaning at all. As someone from an immigrant family, my experience of blackness is an entirely different one from my African-American friends — an experience that often makes life feel like a battle that is impossible to win.

By Asihamanne Williams for MTV Founders