By Msimbi Shuman Jambo! Hello! Welcome to Kenya, one of the most well-known travel destinations in all of Africa. Every summer tens of thousands of tourist from around the world arrive to visit Kenya’s safari […]
By Lee Ann Song I titled this piece “The Memory of a Century” because of the two events that impacted me the most on this trip. One happy and one sad. But both events that […]
Robben Island – This famous World Heritage site located in Table Bay, some 12km northeast of Cape Town, is where Nelson Mandela and his contemporaries were imprisoned. To tour the rocky island, where a museum […]
By Norman Bell We departed Toledo for Detroit Metro Airport on the morning of May 18, 2011. However, our flight from Detroit to Hong Kong China didn’t depart until 3:30pm. We arrived in Hong Kong […]
By Fletcher Word Sojourner’s Truth Editor For the history buff, the student of American history, there may be no more fascinating place than the Historic Triangle – that site in southern Virginia where Williamsburg, Jamestown […]
By Fletcher Word On my journey south to New Orleans, my host, a longtime friend, informed me that he and his family wanted to take me to a plantation on the outskirts of the city. […]
By Fletcher Word On the banks of the Mississippi lies a treasure – a lot of treasures actually – but this particular treasure is Memphis, Tennessee. And Memphis is the cradle, if not the birthplace, […]
By Ardenia Jones Terry The trip to Tokyo, Japan initially was to be a mere stop on our group’s voyage to Bali for a women’s conference. However, it also turned into an opportunity to visit […]
By Ardenia Jones Terry Egypt is the land of pharaohs, the cradle of civilization and an African country. Egypt is part of the motherland and as African Americans you are at home on Egypt’s soil. […]