Most Active Stories Fri November 5, 2010 The Promised Land -
Frank and Audrey Peterman 11/21: On a 10-week tour of 16
national parks in 1995, Frank and Audrey Peterman were awed by
the beauty of America and warmed by the friendliness of fellow
campers. But among all of the park tourists, the Petermans saw
only two fellow African-Americans. After discovering that many
blacks felt no connection with the parks, Frank and Audrey took
action: They started a program called "Keeping It Wild," aimed
at encouraging black Americans to visit the nation's parks and
other public lands that they help pay for with tax dollars. As
Frank notes, "If you are not involving the communities who will
make up a larger percentage of the voting population in the
future, how do you then expect them to make decisions that will
protect these places for posterity?" In this edition of The
Promised Land, host Majora Carter joins the Petermans and a
group of teens from inner-city Houston as they crawl through a
wondrous 100-foot cave in Yose