I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.

I often think of Audre Lorde and her saying that we don't live and we don't fight for one specific struggle.

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