Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Back in 2009, Rue Mapp started a blog called Outdoor Afro about her experiences getting out into nature as a woman of color.
That blog then turned into a national online network for African Americans to connect with each other and organize all sorts of outdoor activities, like hiking, mountain biking and camping.
In recent years, Outdoor Afro has taken on a new goal as part of it's mission— to help black Americans deal with the trauma, grief, and anger brought on by police shootings of black men.
They're called #HealingHikes. Rue Mapp joined Take Two to explain more about them.
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