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Travel as transformation, not tourism. Stories about exploration, identity, and becoming.
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Some of us traveled in our imaginations before we ever traveled anywhere. (opens the original)
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FLIGHTS & FEELINGS | SEPTEMBER 2026Solo adventures are one of my favorite things to do. This time, I took myself on a date on a random Tuesday to see a matinee movie at Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn. Look at me practicing free will. I love solo dates because they give you time to think and be in solitude, without someone else’s thoughts immediately shaping the way you want to move.<a class="im
I Owe It to the Boy in Me to Lean Into the Joy in Me (opens the original)
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Coming from where Jelani comes from, ascension is often dreamed of. The talent and ambition are there. But unfortunately, luck and opportunity don’t always meet people from his community in equal measure. To imagine yourself somewhere different, to believe you could actually get there and ascend to new heights, requires a certain kind of imagination. Some might even call it delusion.Share
Frequent Flyers: Jazmine Brown (opens the original)
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Life is a Series of Drafts | Ashley Glover (opens the original)
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Picture this: a little Black girl in Lumberton, North Carolina (45 min South of Fayetteville), riding behind her uncle on his lawn mower and imagining all the places she might someday go from the driver’s seat of her pink Barbie car. By sixth grade, Ashley knew there was more of the world she wanted to see.ShareShe talks about the Southern roots she carries with her, h
From Flint, With Love (opens the original)
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(The last ‘segment’ of this video got cut out due to technical difficulties (ew), but we still wanted to share the parts of conversation we were able to capture.)A flight back home means going back to where it all started for us: Flint, Michigan.It’s also where Jelani and I met in high school. With curiosity, and honestly, a whole lot of delusion, we became two of the people who “made it out.” Now, almost 10 years after leaving, we get to come back and say that we actually did a lot of what we s
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