As a young girl growing up on Virginia’s eastern shore, Sheila Ruffin came to love boats at an early age. Her grandfather was an avid boater so she spent a lot of her childhood around the water. Once she was older, Sheila would go on to attend law school. After learning that she didn’t pass the bar exam the first […]
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Stephanie Ogbogu, Travel Noire Women working at sewing machines in factory. Pic credit: Sleek Garments Export Ltd. Featured Image ou’re almost there! You’ve taken the first step—deciding to take a trip to New Orleans and experience its colorful cultural ambiance, excellent restaurants, and nowhere-else-but-here traditions that make New Orleans one of the most popular tourist destinations in the US. Get […]
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Mark Beckford, Mark Beckford Natalija Gormalova/Narratively. Featured Image hen Lakeshia Ford decided she was going to pack up her life and her budding career and move from New Jersey to Ghana, her family could not understand why she wanted to make the trek to a country thousands of miles from home. Even more surprising, to some, was Ford’s reason: the […]
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To expand its partnership with the NAACP, Airbnb embarked on a Jamestown to Jamestown pilgrimage to Accra, Ghana.
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Johnny Pitts, Refinery29 PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHNY PITTS. Featured Image Pitts was born into a working class home in Sheffield at the same time Maggie Thatcher was in Number 10. He is the son of an African American father and a white English mother. As he writes in the prologue of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, it was a time when […]
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Angela Dennis, Medium Illustration by Neal Fox, Featured Image we think of black history often times vacation destinations are left out of our dialogue. Our past is well documented with stories of slavery, plantations, and oppressive reality yet little do we hear about how some of our ancestors and those who came before us got to celebrate their lives. As […]
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FacebookTwitterMailDorothy Rowley , The Washington Informer fall descends upon Prince George’s County, nestled amid the beauty is the Wellspring Manor and Spa — a serene retreat destination on more than seven acres of nostalgic ambience dating back nearly three centuries. More than a traditional bed and breakfast, the tastefully decorated colonial-style manor house, along with a luxury spa and exquisite […]
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