Y'all wasn't exactly expectin' a pitcher a'Mammy, wuzya? Eighty years ago this week, Monroe, Louisiana-based Delta Air Lines...

A Brazilian airline's image of Brazilians: A Korean airline's image of Brazilians: Just sayin'. Fly Brother welcomes your views...

Afro-Belgian musical group Zap Mama has effused pan-African rhythm and flow for the last 20 years, badooing and doowapping on politics and ...

Today, I return to São Paulo, my favorite megacity, for a weekend of sophistication and debauchery. Brazil's largest city presents me w...

Inaugurated in 1960 as Brazil's brand-spanking-new capital, Brasília was built on a high, semi-arid plateau in the mid-western region of...

San Francisco's black population has declined from 13% in 1970 to 7% today. Micah sees himself as less than one-in-ten; Joanne sees her...

Living outside of New York, it's easy to miss entertaining, insightful, and even inspirational stage plays. Thanks to Spike Lee, the en...

Image by street paparazzo Carnival, the annual celebration of debauchery preceding 40 days of disciplined abstinence leading up to Easter, i...

It's that time of year again where folks in Latin America, Louisiana, and the Mediterranean are prepping for Carnival, which starts next...

Back when I was in Cairo a few months ago, I had taken a taxi into the Old City to catch a free performance of the Whirling Dervishes (in T...

Cruising around Miami for New Years in a rental car with no iPod dock meant much radio time. Thankfully, 93.9 (in spite of random and agoni...

NEW YORK— Yeah, there are rats, service disruptions, drunken old men, drunken young women, and the pungent odor of pee, but dammit, the New ...

NEW YORK— A couple months ago, after a week in London, I posted a comparison of the English capital with its New World offspring and giving...

Ain't it pretty? Today, I head up to the Frozen North: ten days in New York City (any lurkers in the area, get at me) . In honor of the...

Oh, Hong Kong! How the currents of history and culture have conspired to make you the entoxicating urban assemblage that you are. Poised at ...

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Dry and monstrously big, India's capital city houses over twelve million people who, despite sprawling over 570 square miles at the apex...

Today, I'm taking my last transoceanic flight of the RTW, leaving Kuala Lumpur at midnight and arriving in Los Angeles at 10am, via eigh...

In India, there's often just too much traffic for an American-style SUV to go barrelling through the streets of Mumbai or Delhi. So, the...

Steamy and sensual, a masala of disparate peoples, faiths, and tongues facing the Arabian Sea, Mumbai (still called Bombay by many of its re...