African-American Literary Journeys

by Sam Cochrane
Travel opens up our eyes to the beautiful diversity of the human experience, and our bookshelves deserve the same attention. If these works by African American writers are on your shelves already, take the time to revisit them. But if you’ve missed them, please check out not one, but all the books on our top five list below.
In honor of Black History Month, and in honor of great literature, the nominees are:
1) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Sometimes travel is more than resorts and sight-seeing; physical movement becomes a...