Black Folks Camp Too Founder Explains Why More Black People Should Experience the Outdoors

Like many other “whites only” spaces carved into our history, camping was among the long list of activities that Blacks were not welcomed to take part in. Folks over at Black Folks Camp Too call it a generational fear that they’ve now set out to break. “In the South those same woods that folks were camping in, Black folks were getting lynched in,” Earl Hunter, founder of Black Folks Camp Too, said to Atlanta Black Star.