Join Mariam Guliams on The Gist of Freedom as she welcomes Marian Douglas-Ungaro! Mariam is a writer and journalist, an international consultant in elections and human rights, and founder of the international AFROAMERICAS network - for the Afrodescendants (the Slavery Descendants) of the Americas. 

She prefers to be identified as "Black American" (not African American) and comes from DAEUS families. DAEUS = "Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States. (Term coined by retired Ohio human rights law professor Vernellia Randall.) 

She is a native of Washington, DC, and she and her family live in Washington, DC and Rome, Italy. 

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