03/05/2021
It’s time for change in our National Parks. We are calling for action to ✊🏿🌲✊🏾⛰️✊🏽🌵🌈
African Americans still represent only about seven percent of park visitors. In comparison, they make up thirteen percent of the national population. Latinos, Native Americans, and other non-white visitors are similarly underrepresented. The rest—some 78 percent—are white. NPS employees are 83% white.
Our initiative was created to change that. We’ve spent countless hours putting together black stories, books, and finding organizations that are advancing diversity in the outdoor space.
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"Why don’t more African American poets and novelists set their stories in environments like this? The history is there. But the modern-day equivalent of the extension of those stories and contributions is not here. And that really troubles me.”
-Shelton Johnson
♥️ Whitney and Jake ♥️
