Five teenagers from Detroit’s Boys & Girls Club exhibited their own line of menswear during NYFW after an intense program that required them to learn and be mentored by some of the top Black entrepreneurs, influencers, and designers in America. Now the hard part begins.
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Community-based tourism, in which locals invite tourists to visit their neighborhood while providing overnight accommodations, offers an investigative way to explore an area. This form of tourism is essential to sharing parts of Black American culture with each other. Kristin Kitchen, serial hotelier and owner of Sojourn Heritage Accommodations, grew her hotel brand with this exact concept in mind.
Kitchen opened her first bed-and-breakfast, Six Acres B&B, in a sprawling two-story, nine-bedroom house that helped carry runaway slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Set along Mill Creek, Six Acres is located on you guessed it six acres of land in College Hill, outside Cincinnati, Ohio, where Kitchen grew up.
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Each year, Miami s Art Basel adds more artistic experiences that reach across the city s neighborhoods and include Black artists. Events happening in Overtown, Brownsville, and Little Haiti draw attention to artists and entrepreneurs that largely get ignored by mainstream art buyers and appreciators. This year, while under pandemic guidelines, I spent three days experiencing Art of Black, an immersive experience that shines a light on what makes Black artists such a pivotal part of Miami s history. Day 1
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The month-long Art of Black experience holds a lot of cultural significance, so meeting one of the originators provides an understanding of its importance to the larger Miami story. This year, Art of Black