Black Women Are Leaving the U.S. for Mexico City and Calling It a New American Dream: 'Here I Feel Like a Black Person'

Black Women Are Leaving the U.S. for Mexico City and Calling It a New American Dream: 'Here I Feel Like a Black Person'

On a warm, cloudless afternoon, Black American women gather at a sidewalk café in Mexico City, chatting effortlessly in Spanish between bites of pastries and sips of coffee. The conversation moves from dating to health care costs to the best place in the city for a proper chocolate chip cookie. It feels ordinary—until you realize what it represents: a quiet but powerful migration redefining where, and how, the American Dream is lived. Since the …