The Road We Trod
Shayla MartinA newsletter about all things Black travel, Black history and Black culture.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 24 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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What I'm looking forward to in Black travel this year
Hello everyone! I know many of you are here from my recent ‘from the editor’ newsletter for my day job at Afar magazine, where I highlighted some of our Black history month travel coverage and wrote a bit of a love letter to Durham, NC (I’v...
Where Black travelers should go this year.
A few weeks ago, my Mom and I went to dinner in Georgetown, then afterward spent a few minutes driving around the neighborhood admiring the gorgeous Christmas decorations. While observing in silence, my Mom literally read my mind and said a...
An overdue update
A few weeks ago, I saw a note on substack that brought my whirling thoughts to a halt. I have to paraphrase because of course I can’t find it now, but essentially it was from someone gently admonishing us writers to stop treating ourselves...
Travel with your parents. Now.
let us bow our heads and pray that August comes up in here like it’s got some sense.
Me trying to explain myself last month.
July, WTF. Before I get into this essay topic that I’m super excited to talk about, I just had to say that July...
Where do we go from here?
I had so many fun and interesting topics planned for my newsletter this summer, especially as someone who HATES the summer season (more on that later), but now that the United States is throwing rocks from its glass house, I feel like anyth...
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2x award-winning travel journalist. Master storyteller. Always rooting for everybody Black. ✍\ud83c\udffe: NYT, Afar, CNT, Arch Digest, and more.
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