Black-Owned Hotels Throughout the World Shauna Beni © Courtesy Urban Cowboy Planning a trip can be fun or stressful, depending on who you ask. For many Black travelers, unconscious bias, racism, and a systemic history of oppression within the travel industry can often make for the latter. In choosing accommodations, for example, it seems reasonable to expect a few things, like a sense of safety, respect, and options that work with in your budget. But dating as far back as the early 1900s, when Black Americans were denied access to public accommodations because of the color o...