0:08 – The recently coined “Black Travel Movement” began in 2015, and is expanding exponentially in interested and numbers of travelers and travel groups headed abroad. We speak to Kumi Rauf, founder and CEO (Chief Experience Officer), of Bay Area-based Traveling Black (@TRVLBLK) an organization whose mission is to inspire black people, who don’t often travel, to expand their comfort zones and seek out to rare destinations.
0:34 – Kevin Thompson, Adjunct Professor of the African-American Studies Program at the University of Houston joins us to discuss the history of Juneteenth, an African-American holiday which commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the state of Texas.