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Outdoor Afro founder Rue Mapp: "Nature is a refuge from all the '-isms'" S02EP18
Rue Mapp founded Outdoor Afro, a “social media community that introduces African Americans to the Great Outdoors” because she remembers the exhilaration she felt as a child in the run from the car to the creek when her parents pulled into the driveway of the family’s ranch in the Northern California woodlands.
“I want everyone to have that opportunity to feel that rush of joy and sense of belonging in nature.”
Started as a blog in 2009, Outdoor Afro quickly gained national attention, spreading across the country and garnering national attention and garnering media profiles of Rue on CNN and…
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