‘A Lot of Them Look at Us as Black Americans’: Miami Nonprofit Connects African-American Teens with Botswana to Expose Them to African Culture and Dispel Myths of African Life
A group of Miami High School students is getting the experience of a lifetime, by going to the motherland on the African continent. Edwin Sheppard, founder of Blindfolded International Student and Cultural Exchange Program, is giving Black and brown teens an up-close and personal experience of Botswana, and dispelling negative myths that Africa is flooded…