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Community-based tourism, in which locals invite tourists to visit their neighborhood while providing overnight accommodations, offers an investigative way to explore an area. This form of tourism is essential to sharing parts of Black American culture with each other. Kristin Kitchen, serial hotelier and owner of Sojourn Heritage Accommodations, grew her hotel brand with this exact concept in mind.
Kitchen opened her first bed-and-breakfast, Six Acres B&B, in a sprawling two-story, nine-bedroom house that helped carry runaway slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Set along Mill Creek, Six Acres is located on you guessed it six acres of land in College Hill, outside Cincinnati, Ohio, where Kitchen grew up.
Black Entrepreneur Uses Cotton Business To Challenge Industry s Negative Stigma And Empower Community We’re presenting a beautiful, modern switch to a crop we’ve raised,” Black Cotton founder Julius Tillery said.
January 03, 2021 at 5:46 pm
A Black entrepreneur in North Carolina is challenging a longstanding cultural stigma with Black Cotton, a cotton harvesting and decor business founded in 2016.
Julius Tillery has been harvesting cotton on his Northampton County farm and converting the material into items such as home decor, art and jewelry. Choosing to block out any criticism about a business that is historically known as an industry that exploited enslaved Black people, Tillery said he s only focused on the present.
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