refugee, IDP, evacuee

[Margaret Lee]

Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
I always thought it a bit odd to hear Lauryn Hill singing about
being a "refugee" when she (like me) grew up in comfortable South Orange,
NJ.

--Ben Zimmer

Black people in America have been "refugees" from Africa since 1619.


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