In light of recent high-profile attacks on our Asian-American/Pacific Islander community members in the United States and Canada, this is a list of actionable steps we can take to support our human family against needless, thoughtless, ridiculous hatred. Beyond the “model minority” stereotype, Asian-Americans, particularly, have long been subject to institutional and cultural oppression in […]
The power of storytelling has always been a vital part of everything FLY BROTHER stands for, but especially in times like these when it’s so easy to feel disconnected with the world. That’s why it’s such an honor to announce that our host, Ernest White II, will be serving on Condé Nast Traveler’s 2021 Advisory
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Travel docu-series FLY BROTHER With Ernest White II first aired on Public Television Stations nationwide in May of last year. Since then, the show has been featured in numerous publications, expanded to airing on CreateTV, and has ultimately inspired thousands of people with stories of friendship and human connection through travel. Didn’t catch Season One
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We didn’t get to choose where and when we were born, or to whom. We didn’t get to choose our upbringing, or if or how we get traumatized. We didn’t choose to experience a pandemic or the death of loved ones or the loss of a job or any number of circumstances we find ourselves
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Between travel restrictions, quarantines, and all the uncertainty of 2020, it’s easy to feel disconnected and isolated. Our goal here at FLY BROTHER is to bring people together because imagination, wanderlust, and human connection are certainly not on lockdown. FLY BROTHER with Ernest White II is a new television travel docu-series about friendship and connection
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FLY BROTHER with Ernest White II is a new television travel docu-series about friendship and connection around the world. Now available on Public Television Stations nationwide, the first season of FLY BROTHER with Ernest White II takes us to Brazil, Canada, Georgia, Namibia, Sweden, Ethiopia, India, and Tajikistan. In each location, Ernest meets with his real-life friends to explore
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One hundred years ago, the Roaring ‘20s began. During that decade, aviation, electricity, and automobiles thrust us into the future. The Harlem Renaissance, jazz and flappers, Art Deco and the Charleston modernized Western culture. Women in the U.S. finally, if partially, gained the right to vote. Paris and Buenos Aires and Chicago and Berlin swang
On August 24, 2009, ten years ago this week, I embarked upon my very first round-the-world trip. I was a full-grown 31-year-old and had just completed a four-year tenure as an English and social sciences teacher in Colombia. It was time to do something (else) epic to commemorate the closing of one life chapter and
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Your monthly roundup of a few fun, unmissable festivals on every inhabited continent on Earth. Here are our picks for August: AFRICA | Chale Wote Street Art Festival | Accra, Ghana The funky, futuristic Chale Wote festival brings together graffiti, film, performance art, music, dance, fashion, and every other form of human artistic expression together
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When my friend Prudence Kolong, one of the organizers of the very first Pavillon Afriques at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, asked me to participate as a host and emcee, I immediately said “yes.” Then, I immediately went into fear mode. What did I really know about film? What did I really know about Africa,
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