Advocacy
ACT at African Day Parade!
African Communities Together members had a great time at the African Day Parade and Festival, marching, dancing, and spreading the word about ACT's services and campaigns to the other participants.
Take a look at the photos from our contingent on Facebook.
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We Call it the "American Dream": African Immigrants & Ferguson
Ask immigrants why we came to America, and you will hear millions of different stories. But our many stories usually boil down to just a few shared reasons.
Safety, freedom, opportunity, and family.
When immigrants get to America, we often find realizing our dreams harder than we imagined. But immigrants persevere, and we keep fighting for the dreams that inspired us to cross borders and oceans and continents.
African Immigrants & Ebola Backlash
African Communities Together joins several other organizations that serve African immigrants in New York in a strong statement condemning discrimination against African immigrants due to the Ebola scare.
In Wake of New York Ebola Diagnosis, Coalition Warns Against Intolerance and Attacks on Immigrants