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Black children play outdoors in this illustration photo. "What it means for me, to be Black, is to just have a really close connection to the land, to grow your own food, to be in connection with nature," says Byron Wratee, one of the panelists in the Jan. 10 virtual conversation "Imagining Our Ecological Future: Black Life and Laudato Si'." (Dreamstime/Sam74100)