Four years ago, I moved to Brazil from my home in Chicago. And when people asked me what my calling as a Black American journalist in Brazil was, I said: To save Afro-Brazilians. I wanted to help Black Brazilians confront racism, rise out of poverty, and achieve their full potential in life. Two years passed before the first person challenged my aspirations.
Read MoreOne easy trick to see and remember more of your travels. That trip was the first on which I’d told myself that I’d try and do a watercolor drawing each day. And so, when I looked through my photos, I had an added touchpoint: I could remember trying to draw this waterfall; that platter of kleina pastry; those sorry approximations of the woolly willow and the mountain avens.
Read MoreWhen Sara and her husband David were both laid off within a week of each other, they picked up and moved from New York to Spain where they opened an intimate bar in Altea’s picturesque old town, high above the Mediterranean.
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