Around the World From One Place: A Grown Woman’s Guide to EPCOT
Let’s be honest, Divas. You have spent decades handling the logistics. You planned the family vacations, managed the itineraries, packed the bags, and made sure everyone else had a magical time. Now the kids are grown, your time is your own, and you have stepped fully into your unapologetic, premium, done-for-you era. It is time […]
THE GROWN WOMAN’S GUIDE TO SUMMER 2026
50 Experiences Every Black Woman Over 50 Should Consider Welcome to Your Summer There comes a point in a woman’s life when she realizes that time is no longer something to be spent carelessly. Not because she is getting older, but because she finally understands the value of her experiences. She knows what it took […]
Morocco for the First-Timer: The Souk, the Sahara, and the Senses
If you want your first trip to the continent to wake up every sense you have, and to be genuinely easy to pull off, Morocco is the answer. It is a country of color, scent, and sound. The spice pyramids and lantern light of the souk. The hush of the Sahara at night, under more […]
The Great Migration: What It’s Like to Watch It With Your Sisters Beside You
There is a moment on safari that you do not forget. The dust rises first. Then the sound, a low thunder you feel in your chest before you understand what it is. And then they come, thousands of wildebeest pouring across the plain and down the riverbank, throwing themselves into the water while crocodiles wait […]
Senegal and the Meaning of Teranga: Where You’re Family First
There is a word in Senegal you will hear before you fully understand it, and feel before you can translate it. Teranga. It is usually rendered as “hospitality,” but that is too small. Teranga is a way of receiving people, a belief that a guest is a blessing and that you are family before you […]
Is It Safe for a Black Woman to Travel to Africa? An Honest Answer
If you have caught yourself wanting to go, then quietly talking yourself out of it because of that one nagging question, this is for you. Is it safe? You deserve a straight answer, not a sales pitch. Here is the short version. Yes. Africa is safe to travel, with the same common sense you would […]
The Water in Zanzibar Really Is That Clear. Here’s What Else You’ll Find
You have seen the photos and assumed they were edited. They were not. The water in Zanzibar really is that clear, a turquoise so bright and so transparent you can stand waist-deep and watch your own feet, the kind of water that makes you laugh out loud the first time you walk into it. But […]
South Africa in One Trip: Table Mountain, Safari, Wine, and Mandela’s Legacy
Some countries you visit. South Africa you absorb. It is the one place that hands you the whole continent in a single trip: a flat-topped mountain standing over a city by the sea, wine country that rivals anywhere on earth, the Big Five on the savanna, and the road that ran from a prison cell […]
Durban: South Africa’s Warm Coast and the Zulu Kingdom
If Cape Town is South Africa’s drama and Johannesburg is its engine, Durban is its warm heart. This is the country’s beach city, where the Indian Ocean stays warm enough to swim year-round, the largest Zulu population calls the land home, and a deep Indian-African culture has created some of the best food on the […]
Egypt Is African: The History We Were Never Taught
Somewhere along the way, we were handed a version of Egypt with the continent cut off. It showed up in the textbooks filed under “ancient Mediterranean” or “the Middle East,” its people pictured as anything but African, its achievements floated free of the land they grew from. A whole civilization, quietly lifted off the map […]
