This Map Guides Travelers to Where Black Communities Thrive

Black & Abroad hopes to facilitate travel choices that celebrate Black culture and businesses

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For Black-owned businesses, the pandemic was only the latest obstacle in a line of systemic barriers to success. However, Black-owned lifestyle platform and travel brand Black & Abroad is creating substantial ways to help these businesses thrive.

Black & Abroad’s new data-driven domestic travel platform, The Black Elevation Map, takes cultural data—including Black population figures, historical markers, Black-owned businesses and social media activity—and visualizes it as points of interest on a searchable map of the United States.

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