//Soledad O’Brien brings diverse voices together to explore issues of identity in ‘To Be an American’

Soledad O’Brien brings diverse voices together to explore issues of identity in ‘To Be an American’

From his couch in rural Kansas, a burly white man who is “between manufacturing jobs” glances up at the camera and looks away. When people put the out-of-work label on you, he says, “it’s hard to imagine how your life could be. It kills the dream.”Moments later, a member of the Potawatomi Nation speaks proudly of the Indigenous rituals and traditions woven into his