Tag: Travel
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We Don’t Want No Problems: Tips for the Archives
Schomburg Center, summer 2017 (I am excited to visit the newly remodeled Schomburg Center next month) For those who are new to my blog, I am working toward my PhD in History with a focus on African American history. The department requires each of us to submit a first year paper, or our “rite of…
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Day 5: Birmingham (PART III)
Just FYI I took this trip back in June. So these posts are simply reflections. Carolyn McKinstry, one of the survivors from the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (1963), signing her book While the World Watched After spending the morning in Montgomery, our group traveled to Birmingham for the afternoon. We had the liberty of exploring…
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Summer 2017
My summer. In early June, I returned home after finishing up 2 years at a university’s Office of Housing and graduating. In just a week, I took a train from North Carolina to Pennsylvania and began a week and a half Civil Rights Bus Tour (which I blogged briefly about). From there, I took a…
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#BlackGirlsTravel: A Week in Panama
Taboga Island, Panama I love to travel. If I am not traveling, I am planning my next international adventure. So Panama began with a phone call to my old college roommate, Djola (who I know loves to have fun) and my sister, Faith, who needed a stamp in her passport. I wanted to spend a week…
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Because The World Looks Better In Black and White…Estonia and Latvia
This past week, my study abroad group travelled to Tallinn, Estonia and Riga, Latvia. We left last Thursday night at 10:30 pm and of course I got on the bus extra early to get my own seat because we were not going to arrive until 8 am. For most of the trip I read The…
Diary of a Historian 