People of Color Have Been Systemically Excluded from National Parks

'Segregation and other forms of systemic racism have had a lasting effect on who visits these national parks today. According to a 2018 study, less than two percent of National park visitors were Black.  James Edward Mills, a freelance journalist and the author of The Adventure Gap, Changing the Face of The Outdoors, and Nicole Jackson, a next-generation advisory council member at the National Parks Conservation Association, spoke with Tanzina Vega about this disparity and the efforts happening to change it.'