EPISODE · Jan 21, 2022 · 19 MIN
Standing up for Black lives at the border
from Headlines From The Times · host Felicia Rangel-Samponaro, Shani Hilton, Denise Guerra, Kinsee Morlan, Jazmin Aguilera, Lauren Raab, Kasia Broussalian, Angel Carreras, Ashlea Brown, Gustavo Arellano, Melissa Kaplan, Shannon Lin, Molly Hennessy-Fiske
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.More reading: The woman defending Black lives on the border, including her own Podcast: Our nation’s Haitian double standard Podcast: Biden shut a migrant camp. Then this bigger one appeared
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