Black Meetings & Tourism
The Authority On African American Conventions, Incentives,
and Leisure Travel.
In the January/February edition of Black Meetings & Tourism Magazine, we have a special expanded story about the Black America 250th Anniversary. You can read the electronic version of the magazine at www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com
REGIONAL DIRECTORY
The Northeast
“The Black American experience in the Northeast United States is a complex and multifaceted narrative, deeply intertwined with the region’s history and culture…”
The South
As the gateway to North America during the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, the Southern United Sates maintains the largest concentrated population of African Americans, worldwide…
The Midwest
Dubbed “The Great Migration,” from about 1916 to the 1970s, more than 6 million Black Americans relocated from the rural South to the cities of the North, West and Midwest….
The West
After the Civil War many African Americans were a part of the “Western Expansion”, finding their way to the developing states of Wyoming, Colorado, California and others…
US Territories
Throughout the Caribbean and particularly in the United States territories of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and Puerto Rico, the history and present day life reflect the rich cultural contributions of the hundreds of thousands of Africans who arrived in those regions…