Travel Is Better in Colorâs founders have a mission to amplify more BIPOC voices.
A new organization is surfacing vibrant stories from BIPOC writers and photographersâand helping traditional travel media shake off its white gaze.
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Consider the latest travel story you read. Was it about a place you were familiar with, or somewhere new? Did you notice the byline? Did anything about the descriptions stand out? Perhaps it was the tale of a coast-to-coast train trip across America where the characters were âRunyonesque,â or a tuk-tuk ride through âdusty, dirtyâ stretches of Mumbai. Do a quick Google search for âmedina Marrakech hecticâ and see how often it turns up. Thereâs a dominant language used in centuriesâ worth of travel stories thatâs so pervasive, most of us donât question it.