In recent years, tensions between the two groups have risen to levels that RAMS CEO JayVon Muhammad said she hasn’t seen in her lifetime. The trip, which makes stops at sites important to the histories of both cultures, is designed to foster personal transformation of individual participants, and to build bridges between the two communities. The San Francisco-based community services nonprofit RAMS ran the inaugural cross-country trip last summer. That’s the basic recipe of the Unity Trip, which brings together a group of Bay Area high school girls, half of whom are African American and half of whom are Chinese American. Ten girls, a month on the road, 15 historical stops, and ample time to hang out. Malajzia Glenn and Caitlyn Wong were part of last year’s inaugural cross-country Unity Trip.
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