Zélie from Haiti to Benin Where the Spirits Waited for Me
Zélie had always felt the presence of something older moving through her during Vodou ceremonies in the hills of Haiti, in the chants passed down from her grandmother, in the way the…
my short travel story
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Marcus from Chicago to Calabar, Nigeria: Crossing Back Over the Water
A civil rights activist retraces the broken trail of the first stolen souls from Calabar to Veracruz, searching for the names history refused to keep. Marcus had spent his life fighting for…
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Malik From Medina to West Africa to Find What Was Taken
Malik had spent his life in the shadows of unanswered questions. Born and raised in the Middle East, he always knew he was different—the color of his skin, the guarded looks, the…
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Carlos, from Brazil to Badagry, Nigeria: The Drums That Called Me Home
Carlos had always felt the beat. In the rhythms of Candomblé ceremonies, in the sway of Bahia’s streets, in the steady pulse beneath his skin—it was there. But he never understood why…
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Amina from US to Senegal: The Road Back Through the Door of no Return
Amina had spent her entire life in the U.S. learning how to shrink herself. How to be quiet when the world told her she was too loud, too Black, too foreign in…
