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From ABCnews.com:

America’s national parks have a quiet power and an arresting beauty, but to Yosemite National Park Ranger Shelton Johnson, they also speak the truth.

“They tell the story of us as Americans,” Johnson said. “They tell the story of ourselves as human beings, in this world, on this planet.”

Johnson is one of the country’s few African-American park rangers, and his is a rare face of color at Yosemite because less than 1 percent of visitors to the national park in California are black.

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