MTV Impact | Parents, Sacrifice & What it Means to be American 🇵🇭🇮🇳🇬🇭 First Gen Conversation (Ep. 1) @MTVImpact | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 20 hours ago.
First Gen Conversation celebrates immigrants and the children of immigrants through long form interviews about identity, creativity, and growing up in multicultural homes. In this episode, Rich Tu talks with Comedy Central producer Alysha Lalji about her Indian heritage and her grandfather’s connection to the Olympics. Last but not least, Rich chats with Dometi Pongo (MTV News correspondent and host of True Life Crime) about growing up in Chicago as the son of Ghanaian immigrants, and the convergence of pop culture and social justice.

Hosted by: Rich Tu
Guests: Alysha Lalji and MTV News Correspondent Dometi Pongo

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Further Listening and Viewing:

First Generation Burden Podcast: FirstGenBurden.com
Conversations in Context: smithsonianchannel.com/details/series/conversations-in-context
MTV News The Method: youtube.com/watch?v=XltvYW1upqI&list=PLnvZ3PbKApGMZUsEH7nWgWJOyCRZH8bUp&index=2&ab_channel=MTVNews

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