Dan Meyers talks to nature photographer Dudley Edmondson, author of The Black and Brown Faces in America’s Wild Places, which profiles 20 African-Americans across the country – seven of them from Colorado – who love the great outdoors. According to a federal study, only 13 percent of African-Americans recently visited a national park. For whites, the percentage was nearly three times higher.
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