Macollvie J. Neel
Macollvie J. Neel
is a writer and communications consultant based in Brooklyn, NY. She emigrated from Haiti to the U.S. when she was 10.
Macollvie J. Neel
The #BlackLivesMatter protests in 2020 sparked hard conversations within immigrant communities on how internalized biases based on skin-color remain prevalent.
“There’s something about immigrants that makes us almost expansive in our thinking, because in our neighborhood, the world meets.”
A lot of Black immigrants like me have come to see that for our children to live the better lives we envisioned in this country, we need to be all-in against racism—no matter where or whom it strikes.