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Park ranger highlights need for more persons of colour

When he was a child, Cassius Cash said, his parents hammered home a lesson that always stuck with him: Stay away from the woods. “I was born in ’68 in Memphis, Tenn., and the woods to my mother and father was not considered to be a safe place for people of color in the Deep South,” he said in an interview. Cash, now the superintendent of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, says many Black children still believe the woods are...