Located on the southside of Chicago, The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center is one of my preferred museums. During my most...

May is National Menstrual Hygiene Month. In April 2024, I traveled to the Ivory Coast for an amazing trip. There were several highlights....

Last week, I watched the documentary "Maynard," about the life and career of Maynard Jackson, the first Black mayor of Atlanta (I highly...

A few years ago, three amazing Black women human computers, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson who were instrumental in...

In the Summer of 2023, I traveled to Namibia with ThatMan Travels and some amazing, beautiful sistas. When I heard about the trip, I had...

November 1, 2023, was beautiful in Arkansas City, AR. It was a day to honor an icon of the black press, John H. Johnson, founder of...

Today, July 25, 2023 would have been Emmett Louis Till's 82nd birthday. If he wasn't murdered in 1955, he would probably be alive today....

This past summer, I visited Union Baptist Cemetery located in Cincinnati, OH. Union Baptist Cemetery is on the National Register of...

"My attachment to Rochester, my home for more than a quarter century, will endure with my life." - Frederick Douglass. Frederick Augustus...

As we celebrate Memorial Day to honor the men and women who sacrificed their lives, the history of Memorial Day which was FIRST started...

Tucked away in a quiet neighborhood in Hampton, VA, between two residential homes, is one of the oldest black cemeteries. At rest are...

Sunday, February 20, I took a 2-hour drive to Milwaukee, WI. As a member of America's Black Holocaust Museum, I attended a private...

I took a short trip to Detroit to locate the Eight Mile Wall. On the north side of Detroit, the six-foot wall known as the Birwood Wall,...

Tragedy happened 81 years ago in Natchez, MS on April 23, 1940. 209 lives were lost at the Rhythm Night Club. I traveled to Natchez, MS...

I have to admit, I knew very little about the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. When I planned my trip to Tanzania with African...

While in Tanzania, a couple of people from African American Travelers and myself got up early in the morning to visit the Hadzabe Tribe...

AFRICA, what a beautiful word. Every year, I make it a point to go to a different country. On my last trip in 2019, I had an amazing...

The history of Nathan “Nearest” Green, like many African American men and women, have been withheld and erased, but hidden no more....

"I gave a little blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to dramatize to the nation that people of color were denied the right to vote. I was...

Today marks 57 years that 11-year-old Denise McNair, and 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were killed...