Day: February 10, 2018

Birthright Africa co-founders Walla Elsheikh and Ashley Johnson

In The Era Of Trump: Birthright Africa Emerges To Combat Negative Stereotypes

Chicago artist Ashley Johnson, 33, and former Goldman Sachs Associate Walla Elsheikh, 38, were inspired to launch Birthright Africa by their Jewish friends who raved about their birthright trips to Israel, they told the New Yorker.

Both women wondered why something like that didn’t exist for blacks in the African diaspora.

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