Rahawa Haile, subject of the essay “Going It Alone” about hiking the 2,139 mile Appalachian Trail (Outside Magazine 4/2017).

An excerpt:

“I knew it,” he says. “You’re not black.”

I say that of course I am. “None more black,” I weakly joke.

“Not really,” he says. “You’re African, not black-black. Blacks don’t hike.”

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