The stories, conversations, and resources for Black professionals years into life abroad — who you become once the honeymoon phase is long gone.
Three conversations from The Global Chatter archive on what it means to build a life abroad that lasts years, not months.
Five years after his wife first shared their move to Mexico, Vernon returns to talk tragedy, resilience, and raising three Black kids across Chicago, Mexico, and Antigua.
Listen →Scammed the day she landed in Tokyo, LaTonya built Soul Food House from a decade of free Thanksgiving dinners — and founded Legacy Foundation Japan along the way.
Listen →An Afro-Costa Rican writer and the son of a Malawian exile met by chance in a Johannesburg jazz club. Years later, a racial profiling incident in Brooklyn sent them to build a new life in Costa Rica.
Listen →The conversation doesn't stop here. Browse the full Global Chatter archive →
Two short films on what it actually takes to build a life somewhere new, years in.
Leaving New York behind and starting over in the Netherlands — the self-discovery that led Dana to found Ancestors unKnown, a curriculum helping students trace their own ancestry.
Watch →Building Ayiba Magazine while moving between the U.S., Nigeria, and Canada — and what that instability taught her about diaspora identity.
Watch →More from The Journey series. Browse the full series →
Five essays on identity, adjustment, and what years abroad actually does to who you are.
Five areas of hard-won learning from someone adjusting to life in Nigeria, once the initial glow of the move has faded and the real cultural friction sets in.
Read the article →What happens when you've lived abroad long enough that you're no longer fully the person who left, but not yet fully of the place you live now.
Read the article →Five years in London, one expat spouse's identity crisis — losing her career identity, becoming a mother abroad, and rebuilding her sense of self on her own terms.
Read the article →The isolation, microaggressions, and grief that come with being a Black expat — and the unexpected freedom, growth, and wealth that come with it too.
Read the article →After six years in China, coming home was harder than leaving. A raw look at reverse culture shock, outgrowing old friends, and repatriation.
Read the article →More reading on identity and wellbeing abroad. Wellbeing + Identity →
Curated reading lists on identity, displacement, and building a life somewhere new — for those years into the journey.
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