![]() ![]() See Us has a march planned to protest police brutality, Ayo has to put up with new teachers who mispronouce her name and are impressed by her mother while also committing microaggressions, and Devonte asks her to get her mother's signature to absolve the football coach who cut off a player's dreadlocks, and whom See Us has been pursuing. There's a lot going on as the school year starts. Ayo's second chance is to ask to step back iswhen she has her birthday her mother plans a scavenger hunt, and if she figures it out, she's allowed to get any gift she would like. Ayo also has questions about who her father is, and her mother has refused to address them. She tries to tell her mother that she wants to step back from See Us, but her mother is completely unsympathetic. It's wearing, and Ayo just wants to be a teen and pursue her crush on the very cute Devonte. Ayo's home is filled with art and music by Black artists, her mother has made sure she's well versed in Black history, and she knows all about a wide range of social justice issues because she spends so much time helping her mom organize marches, protests, and community engagement events. What's stopping her? Her social justice activist mother, Rosalie, who founded the group See Us years ago. Ayomide Bosia lives in Harlem, New York City, and just wants to do the things other fourteen year olds do- hang out with friends, go to school, and occasionally chill in front of a television program. ![]()
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