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The Drum They Weren’t Allowed to Have: Afro-Peru’s Cajon and the Soul of Chincha
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The Drum They Weren’t Allowed to Have: Afro-Peru’s Cajon and the Soul of Chincha

Enslaved Africans in Peru were banned from playing drums, so they built a wooden box, sat on it, and invented the cajÃŗn — now iconic on flamenco stages worldwide. In Chincha's El Carmen district, families like the Ballumbrosios still keep that history alive, one courtyard lesson at a time.

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The Drum They Weren’t Allowed to Have: Afro-Peru’s Cajon and the Soul of Chincha
BTN Editor's Pick

The Drum They Weren’t Allowed to Have: Afro-Peru’s Cajon and the Soul of Chincha

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 13 min read

Enslaved Africans in Peru were banned from playing drums, so they built a wooden box, sat on it,…

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Wait, There Are Black People in India? Meet the Siddis of Karnataka
Cultural Immersion

Wait, There Are Black People in India? Meet the Siddis of Karnataka

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 13 min read

A spontaneous detour through Karnataka's forested Uttara Kannada district leads to an encounter with the Siddi community —…

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Mexico’s Third Root: The Black Towns of the Costa Chica
Destination Stories

Mexico’s Third Root: The Black Towns of the Costa Chica

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 10 min read

Ask most people what Mexico looks like and Blackness isn't in the picture — but along the Costa…

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The Door of No Return, Revisited: Coming Home to Cape Coast
Diaspora Roots

The Door of No Return, Revisited: Coming Home to Cape Coast

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 10 min read

A Black American traveler joins a Ghana heritage pilgrimage and walks backward through Cape Coast Castle's Door of…

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Black Is Beautiful, Bahia Style: Inside Brazil’s First All-Black Carnival Bloco
Black Excellence

Black Is Beautiful, Bahia Style: Inside Brazil’s First All-Black Carnival Bloco

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 11 min read

A traveler heading to Brazil for Carnival skips the mainstream Rio spectacle for Salvador da Bahia and falls…

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Airlifted Home: The Ethiopian Jews Who Walked Out of Africa Into a New Identity
Diaspora Roots

Airlifted Home: The Ethiopian Jews Who Walked Out of Africa Into a New Identity

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 13 min read

A community of Black Jews who trace their faith back centuries walked hundreds of miles through famine and…

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The Devils of Portobelo: How an Enslaved People Turned Mockery Into Freedom
Cultural Immersion

The Devils of Portobelo: How an Enslaved People Turned Mockery Into Freedom

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 11 min read

Afro-Panamanian Congo culture — descended from cimarrones who resisted Spanish colonial rule — reenacts slavery, escape, and freedom…

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Frozen Frontier: The Black Soldiers Who Carved a Highway Through Alaska
Black Excellence

Frozen Frontier: The Black Soldiers Who Carved a Highway Through Alaska

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 11 min read

A road-tripper on a bucket-list Alaska drive pulls off at a bridge named for men most tourists have…

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Exiled to Paradise: The Afro-Indigenous Nation Britain Tried to Erase
Diaspora Roots

Exiled to Paradise: The Afro-Indigenous Nation Britain Tried to Erase

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 10 min read

African survivors of slave-ship wrecks who intermarried with Indigenous Caribs on St. Vincent, fought the British for decades,…

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Before the UNIA: Marcus Garvey’s Lost Year on Costa Rica’s Black Coast
Black Excellence

Before the UNIA: Marcus Garvey’s Lost Year on Costa Rica’s Black Coast

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 10 min read

Everyone knows Marcus Garvey as a Harlem icon, but almost no one knows the Pan-Africanist movement he built…

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The Town Halifax Erased: Grief, Memory, and Return in Africville
Destination Stories

The Town Halifax Erased: Grief, Memory, and Return in Africville

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 12 min read

A Black community thrived on the shores of Bedford Basin for more than a century — until Halifax…

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The Island That Ruled an Empire: Finding Mozambique’s Hidden Capital
Cultural Immersion

The Island That Ruled an Empire: Finding Mozambique’s Hidden Capital

📅 Jul 22, 2026 ⏱ 12 min read

A tiny coral island off northern Mozambique was the capital of Portuguese East Africa for nearly 400 years…

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Paine College Homecoming 2027
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Paine College Homecoming 2027

📅 Jul 21, 2026 ⏱ 0 min read
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The Geechee of Coastal Georgia: Sapelo Island, Hog Hammock, and the 2026 Fight to Stay
Destination Stories

The Geechee of Coastal Georgia: Sapelo Island, Hog Hammock, and the 2026 Fight to Stay

📅 Jul 19, 2026 ⏱ 9 min read

On Georgia's Sapelo Island, the last intact Geechee community in the state just won a three-year legal fight…

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The Gullah of the Lowcountry: South Carolina’s Sea Islands and the Unbroken Line to Sierra Leone
Destination Stories

The Gullah of the Lowcountry: South Carolina’s Sea Islands and the Unbroken Line to Sierra Leone

📅 Jul 19, 2026 ⏱ 10 min read

Isolated on South Carolina's Sea Islands for two centuries, the Gullah preserved a language, a cuisine, and a…

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The Windrush Generation: How Caribbean Migrants Rebuilt Britain
Diaspora Roots

The Windrush Generation: How Caribbean Migrants Rebuilt Britain

📅 Jul 19, 2026 ⏱ 7 min read

In June 1948, the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury with 492 Caribbean passengers answering Britain's call for…

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Africatown, Alabama: The Living Legacy of the Clotilda
Black Excellence

Africatown, Alabama: The Living Legacy of the Clotilda

📅 Jul 19, 2026 ⏱ 7 min read

In 1860, 110 kidnapped West Africans were smuggled into Mobile Bay aboard the Clotilda, the last known slave…

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Beyond the Resort Gates — Discovering the Real Jamaica That Most Tourists Never See
Cultural Immersion

Beyond the Resort Gates — Discovering the Real Jamaica That Most Tourists Never See

📅 Jul 16, 2026 ⏱ 12 min read

Jamaica is more than resorts and beaches. I spent two weeks exploring Kingston's art scene, the Blue Mountains,…

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I Retired to Portugal at 58 — Here’s What Nobody Tells You About Black Expat Life in Lisbon
Expat Life

I Retired to Portugal at 58 — Here’s What Nobody Tells You About Black Expat Life in Lisbon

📅 Jul 16, 2026 ⏱ 15 min read

After 25 years in corporate America, I retired to Portugal at 58 and discovered a life I never…

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How We Took 12 Friends on a Mediterranean Cruise — and Made Memories for Life
Group Travel

How We Took 12 Friends on a Mediterranean Cruise — and Made Memories for Life

📅 Jul 16, 2026 ⏱ 14 min read

We took 12 of our closest friends on a group cruise through the Mediterranean and it was the…

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Solo in Cartagena — A Black Woman’s Guide to Colombia’s Most Soulful City
Solo Travel

Solo in Cartagena — A Black Woman’s Guide to Colombia’s Most Soulful City

📅 Jul 16, 2026 ⏱ 12 min read

I traveled solo to Cartagena as a Black woman and discovered a city where Afro-Colombian culture runs deep,…

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30 Days in Accra — How Ghana Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About Home
Diaspora Roots

30 Days in Accra — How Ghana Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About Home

📅 Jul 16, 2026 ⏱ 12 min read

I booked a one-way ticket to Accra and never looked back. Here's what happened when I spent 30…

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The BTN Travel Smart Guide: Everything You Need Before You Fly
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The BTN Travel Smart Guide: Everything You Need Before You Fly

📅 Jun 13, 2026 ⏱ 12 min read

Everything you need to know before you fly — passports, visas, travel insurance, packing essentials, airport tips, money…

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Top 25 Black Travel Events You Cannot Miss in 2026
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Top 25 Black Travel Events You Cannot Miss in 2026

📅 Jun 13, 2026 ⏱ 9 min read

From Afro Nation Portugal to Trinidad Carnival, Essence Fest to HBCU Homecoming — this is the BTN master…

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