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African Diaspora Diaries - Opal Tometi

23/02/2019 GMT

Opal Tometi

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BBC Africa's Daniel Henry meets Opal Tometi, co-founder of Black Lives Matter.

In the first of a 3-part series, BBC Africa reporter Daniel Henry travels to Washington DC to find out what led to Opal Tometi co-founding the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013.

Opal Tometi is the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, the international activist movement that originated in the African-American community. #BlackLivesMatter campaigns against systemic racism. Opal was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Nigerian parents, and she thinks her first trip to Nigeria as a teenager, changed her life.
In the first of a 3-part series, BBC Africa reporter Daniel Henry travelled to Washington DC to find out what led to Opal co-founding the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013.

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BBC Africa's Daniel Henry travels to Stockholm and Amsterdam.

What is it like being born to immigrant parents in a country where there is growing support for anti-immigration parties? BBC Africa's Daniel Henry investigates.

What is it like being born to immigrant parents in a country where there is growing support for anti-immigration parties? How easy is it to be raised with proud African values in a European city? BBC Africa's Daniel Henry travelled to Stockholm and Amsterdam to find out.

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