<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - African American</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/subject/africanamerican?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><description>African American</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Charleston: Ghosts, Gullah and Tea]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44820-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44820-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  English Colonists first settled Charleston, S.C., in 1670. Shortly thereafter, no doubt, the first tour brochure was printed. Centuries passed. Charleston endured slavery, the American Revolution and the Civil War. Hurricanes raged, prostitutes beckoned, murderers lurked, restaurants opened. They all became fodder for tours, tours and more tours.]]></description><author> Gayle Keck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate Black History Month]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44807-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44807-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  <em>February is Black History Month, when Americans are urged to absorb essential chapters of the nation's history, regardless of background. And if you travel, your options multiply. Here here are five ways to commemorate the month -- locally, domestically and abroad.</em>    -- Elissa Leibowitz Poma ]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In K.C.,  the Vine's 2nd Act]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55396-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55396-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[He's snaky and slight, twice as tall as his saxophone, but Darryl Turrell produces a sound that could raise the dead. After 10 minutes of jamming with his quartet, he sits on the edge of the bandstand and just blows: one soulful, sustained note of Grover Washington Jr. that soars above the dance floor, wafts out into the night and salutes the finger-popping ghosts of jazz swaying gently on the corner of 18th and Vine.]]></description><author> Christine H. O'Toole</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[History's Faded Trail]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6115-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6115-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Asa Gordon and Robert Freis are looking to tell the underreported tale of the African American soldiers who fought and died in Virginia during the Civil War.]]></description><author> Bob Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going Underground]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38850-2004Aug27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38850-2004Aug27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cincinnati's state-of-the-art Underground Railroad Museum makes details of escapes and every other imaginable aspect of slavery in America accessible to the broad public.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memphis's Road to Civil Rights]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45461-2004May21.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45461-2004May21.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis captures the calm, powerful truth at the heart of the movement.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mo.'s Place(s)  In Black History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16508-2002Feb15.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16508-2002Feb15.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One brisk Tuesday last month, I climbed the stairs of the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, following the path of Missouri's most famous slave. Past the towering pillars hung portraits of Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, looking at once stern and refined. A plaque offered details of their famous saga: the 1847 legal battle for freedom from bondage was launched on this site; the 1857 Supreme Court appeal; the controversial verdict denying the Scotts' request and stripping them -- and all black Americans -- of their rights.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooklyn's Bridge to the Past]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32399-2001Mar6.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32399-2001Mar6.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New York's Fort Greene neighborhood, a center of African American culture and art for more than 150 years, clings to its roots.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beat of Bahia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34380-2000Jul2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34380-2000Jul2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/africanamerican</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The first time I heard the patter of bongos in the streets of Salvador da Bahia, I followed it down crowded Avenida Carlos Gomes. It took me up five flights of rickety stairs to a display of acrobatics so bold and poetic it made my heart jump. Two caramel-colored men were demonstrating the martial art of capoeira, facing off in a muscular show of power kicks, head-stands and cartwheels, while a pair of drummers coolly tapped in the background.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item></channel></rss>