Taking a vacation while running a business is easier when you set clear expectations and boundaries ahead of time or as they arise. Today is the last day of my mini vacation and this trip marked the first time in my four years of being an entrepreneur that I truly felt comfortable putting up an… Continue Reading
Rome may not have been built in one day, but if you have one or better yet, three, to spend in the city, there’s a whole lot that you can see, do and eat while you’re there. I visited Rome earlier this year and I am still in awe of the experience. I’ve always been really enchanted with… Continue Reading
Zim Ugochukwu is the CEO and founder of Travel Noire. When Travel Noire launched a little over a year ago as a digital publishing platform and resource for black travelers, I immediately reached out to her for an interview because I thought what she was doing was both brilliant and necessary. READ: Zim Ugochukwu’s Mission to Make… Continue Reading
The first time I went to Jamaica, it hugged me and felt like home. So when I was thinking of a place to go on a trip for my birthday, the lush Caribbean island naturally landed at the top of my list. Choosing where to go in Jamaica was also an easy choice because I’d had my eye… Continue Reading
Packing for a weekend jaunt in the next town over can feel like a daunting and stressful task. Imagine throwing an international trip in the mix and you might just be ready to pull your hair out. This is the scenario that I faced earlier this year as I prepared for my first intercontinental trip to Europe.… Continue Reading
by: Reni Somoye (@ReniSomoye) “Work hard. Gain as much knowledge as you possibly can about the public relations industry. Move to Nigeria. Apply that knowledge and save the world.” THIS was my career plan, although, I never thought I’d actually have the guts to follow through with it. I mean–who moves from their comfortable upper-middle class… Continue Reading
One of the downsides that comes with suffering through what seems like the longest winter ever is…passport envy. I’m not sure if it’s from listening to the ‘beach day’ tales of friends who live in warmer climates or drooling over the curated travel images from Travel Noire but, I’ve never wanted to get out of… Continue Reading
A little over a week ago, I went to see ‘All the Way,’ the Broadway play starring Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ). The play focused on LBJ’s first 11 months in office after President Kennedy’s assassination, showing how he grew into the role and leveraged his newfound power to pass landmark Civil… Continue Reading
Marketing images of tourists traveling abroad have historically been devoid of faces and people representative of the African Diaspora. So if you didn’t know any better, you could almost be forgiven for buying into the myth that black people don’t travel. A myth that Zim Ugochukwu (@zimism), 25, believed herself at one point while living… Continue Reading
Over the weekend, Travel Noire, a new blog and company that features cultivated insights from a global community of black travelers, hosted its first Google Hangout session on how to get paid to travel the world. The session was moderated by Travel Noire founder Zim Ugochukwu (@zimism) and included the following guests: Nicole Grimes (@geektreks) of GeekTreks.com, Quinn… Continue Reading