In Search of Bengali Harlem | Trailer

(soft music) ALAUDIN: Growing up in East Harlem, I was getting bullied, and all the kids like, "Yo, your mom talks funny.

What's that she's wearing?"

This was the beginning of when I just totally abandoned and rebelled against anything that was Bangladeshi or Muslim.

NATASHA DEL TORO: A journey to uncover his family's history takes Alaudin Ullah from Harlem to Bangladesh.

Alaudin: There's a void in my life, like I really have to know who my father is.

(water splashes) And that's your family waiting for you.

NATASHA: A family story of immigration, community and identity.

Alaudin: He risked so much, they broke the law to come to another country.

I wanna create narratives where we don't have to be ashamed of our skin, our ethnicity, and our name.

There's so many stories, we've been omitted from history NATASHA: In search of Bengali Harlem on America Reframed.

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