Traveling While Black: Safe and Enjoyable Travel Advice
Travel opens new worlds, new people, and discoveries of self. For Black travelers, travel is richly rewarding and full of challenges, from learning to navigate unfamiliar spaces where anti-Blackness prevails to finding community and cultural home on the move, traveling. At the same time, Black is a matter of perpetual balancing acts between pleasure and […]
How to Support Black-Owned Food Businesses When Traveling
1. Research Before Tour Google your destination’s list of Black-owned restaurants before heading out to tour. Even more helpful in the pursuit would be guides: Black Restaurant Week and EatOkra websites that, again, on their sites, have detailed listings. 2. Use Your Social Media Black-owned restaurants can be found on social media pages like Facebook, Instagram, and […]
Best African Festivals Worth Traveling
1. Festival au Désert (Mali) This is one of the precise music fairs discovered in Africa. The festival, held earlier inside the desolate dunes of the Sahara near Timbuktu, Mali, displays conventional Tuareg tunes to cutting-edge African and international artists. It has been a victim of relocation because of political instability within the United States […]
TSA Takedown: Why Black Women Are Side-Eyeing the New Travel Rules
Ladies, let’s talk. As if packing 3.4 ounces of everything, surviving airport security, and figuring out how to keep our edges intact on long flights weren’t stressful enough, the TSA has decided to spice things up with new travel rules. Oh yes, the Travel Struggle Administration (I mean, Transportation Security Administration) is back at it again. And, […]
Traveling with Kids? 10 Must-Have Items for Family Adventures
Travelling with your kids is one of those fun and indeed trying experiences. Whether it is a weekend road trip, a long-haul flight to some far-off destination, or train travel across the breadth and length of the country, a little preparation could be better in all such instances. Everything you pack, from comfort to meltdown […]