Standing up for Black lives at the border
How a suburban mom became an activist by leaning into her Afro-Latina identity
Headlines From The Times · Felicia Rangel-Samponaro, Lauren Raab, Melissa Kaplan, Denise Guerra, Shannon Lin, Kinsee Morlan, Kasia Broussalian, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Angel Carreras, Ashlea Brown, Shani Hilton, Gustavo Arellano, Jazmin Aguilera
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Show Notes
Felicia Rangel-Samponaro used to live a fairly normal life as a suburban stay-at-home mom in the border city of Brownsville, Texas. But now the half Black, half Mexican-American mom crosses the border to help Black and Latino migrants, many of them asylum seekers stuck in camps in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico.
Today, we hear her story.
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