DER Weekends: Detroit students follow the path of the Buffalo Soldiers in Yosemite National Park
“Detroit Evening Report Weekends” spends time with the community members who make up Detroit’s rich culture and identity.
Students from Detroit traveled to Yosemite this summer to camp, hike, rock climb and learn about the Buffalo soldiers.
On the latest episode of the Detroit Evening Report Weekends, Sascha Raiyn spends some time with Garrett Dempsey of Detroit Outdoors.
Detroit Outdoors is a collaboration between the Sierra Club, the city of Detroit and the YMCA, focused on exposing Detroit youth to the outdoors.
This summer, the organization took a group of students to Yosemite National Park to camp, hike and rock climb. But the trip was centered around the history of the Buffalo Soldiers in the National Parks, and the Detroit native who is the park service’s foremost expert on that history, Shelton Johnson.
Garrett Dempsey is the program director for Detroit Outdoors. He spoke to WDET’s Sascha Raiyn about the trip and the organization’s work to get Black and brown youth into the great outdoors.
Listen to the episode using the media player above.
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