"Code Switch" Podcast - 'Where We Come From': By Any Other Name

This Nigerian immigrant chose a new name not because she was ashamed of her given name but because she was "trying to protect it from other people trying to make it ugly." Keeping a "sacred space" for her name meant using one name with family and friends and another one with everyone else. Listen to this great discussion.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1010399875/where-we-come-from-by-any-other-name