Podcast: Standing up for Black lives at the border

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REYNOSA, MEXICO - DECEMBER 6, 2021: A young Haitian migrant leans on Black Mexican-American border activist Felicia Rangel-Samponaro as she walks through Senda De Vida migrant shelter on December 6, 2021 in Reynosa, Mexico. She founded the non-profit Sidewalk School so the children of migrants from Central America and Haiti can learn English and other studies.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times Houston bureau chief Molly Hennessy-Fiske and director of the Sidewalk School Felicia Rangel-Samponaro

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.