Via our Blogroll comes word from Outdoor Afro of the Breaking the Color Barrier in the Great American Outdoors Conference, scheduled for September 23-26 in Atlanta. The conference will feature discussions on what can be done to encourage more people of color to visit our national parks and become physically active. Speakers include Rue Mapp of Outdoor Afro, Majora Carter of Sustainable South Bronx and Carolyn Finney, a UC Berkeley geographer specializing in race and the outdoors. Above, conference organizer Audrey Peterman is interviewed by MSNBC. The theme of the conference dovetails with RTC's Urban Pathways Initiative, which seeks to encourage trail use in urban neighborhoods - a way to connect with nature and get some physical activity that's a bit closer to home than Yellowstone.