From Jazz to Jollof: Lagos and New Orleans Music and Food Trails
Culture should be experienced in its sensual form: the music listened to with the heart and the food eaten. No two cities embody this brotherhood like New Orleans and Lagos. They are divided by seas, yet the two are bound together with a thread of sparkling music culture, gastronomic heritage, and diaspora-talk-spoken history. Both conduct […]
From Harlem to Haiti: A Travellers Guide to Black Artistic Legacy
Travel isn’t where; it’s the story, signs, and the collective imagination over time. Black travel is moving through the power of art and the power of survival culture. From Harlem’s music clubs to Port-au-Prince’s colored murals, Black international artistic heritage relies on architecture, poetry, sculpture, performance, and protest. It is a living history of sight […]
Revealing the African Diaspora: The Biggest Cultural Enrichment Travel Places
The African diaspora is people all over the world whose origins are traced to the historic African migration, which, except for a few instances, was the consequence of the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, and economic emigration. Despite having undergone discomfort and dislocation earlier, the diaspora has developed flourishing, living cultures that blend indigenous and African […]
Diners Almost Fall to Their Deaths from Restaurant in the Sky
In a hair-raising mishap that sharply highlights the risk potential of gimmick restaurants, diners in a “restaurant in the sky” in Puerto Rico cheated death when one of the stabilising cables in the suspended deck snapped, violently shaking the platform. The mishap re-ignited the debate about the safety of such restaurants. The Incident: A Close […]
Carnival and Culture: Black Identity at International Festivals
Carnivals have been the heart of cultural heritage, collective celebration, and resistance for centuries. Most potent are likely international carnivals—rainbow-hued, rhythmic, and thoroughly embedded festivals testifying to African diasporic power and imagination. On distant seas and continents, Black folks have preserved and reconstituted their cultural practice in Carnival, employing music, dance, costume, and ritual as […]
Delta Air Lines Plane Catches Fire at Orlando International Airport: A Critical Analysis
Background of the Flight Flight 1213 took off from Orlando for Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL), Delta’s most popular route. Airbus A330-300 aircraft are a common routine domestic and international flight vehicle with a safety and reliability factor reputation. Family vacation groups, business people, and flight attendants were some of the half-dozen or so passengers […]
Black Entrepreneurs Abroad: Portraits of the Diaspora Hubs’ Global Centers
With increased globalism today, Black business leaders are remaking success, growth, and innovation borderless. From villages to multicultural cities, African diaspora people are starting companies, creating jobs, and fostering communities across the globe. These stories are about individual grit and collective change toward the art of economic empowerment across a diversity of global environments. This […]
Hidden Histories: Black Contributions to Great World Cities
In Lisbon, London, Berlin, and Buenos Aires, in the world’s greatest cities, Black history is sometimes concealed, overwritten, within dominant narratives. For centuries, black individuals have been equal partners in intellectual, cultural, political, and economic life in great world cities. Black people’s histories are inscribed in neighbourhoods, art, activism, buildings, and institutions, and must be […]
Black Family Vacation: Strengthening Relationships Through Cultural Experience
Travelling with families is arguably the most empowering method of strengthening relationships, developing cherished memories, and fostering cultural competence. For African American families, travelling also offers recreation and an effective means of reclaiming culture, learning, and empowerment. Whether by tracing family lineages, participating in diasporic cultures, or merely partaking in shared experiences, Black family travel […]
Black Beach Culture: Beach Retreats from Martha’s Vineyard to Cape Town
Black beach culture is not just sand and sun; it’s a heritage, identity, and celebration imprinted along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean coastlines. From Martha’s Vineyard’s historic summer cottages of Oak Bluffs to Cape Town’s promenade along Clifton Beach, coastlines have also been refuge and resistance for the African diaspora. In the past few […]