#StudyAbroadSoBlack: The Academic Equivalent of the Black Travel Movement
Image related to article By Kellee Edwards My best friend shared this article in Travel + Leisure Magazine entitled Black Travel: The Movement and I loved reading every single word of it. All kinds of thoughts came to mind and here are some of them... I am not a vacationer, but an adventurer, not a tourist, but a welcome guest. Not to be mistaken for a misguided wanderer, but a peaceful pioneer on an endless quest. (My mantra) From the first time I left the United States of America (2000, Oaxaca, Mexico), studied abroad (Alicante, Spain, 2003), felt the privilege of long-term leisure travel (Vietnam, 2006), taught abroad (Tokushima, Japan, 2007), moved abroad with the intention of staying for-e-ver (Ghana, 2011), traveled with college students abroad (South Africa, 2014), and traveled abroad "for work" (Limerick, Ireland 2017), I understood- clearly- the limitless joy associated with Being Black Abroad. Let me be specific though, being a Black A...