Tour companies pledged to address racial inequality; those promises are taking shape

In late 2020, Leon Burnette, an independent tour director and civil rights historian, received a phone call from the director of a global travel company, asking him to recommend Black tour guides for a new tour being created along the United States Civil Rights Trail, which snakes from Kansas to Washington, D.C. But there was a problem: Burnette hardly knew any.

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