Chicago author brings historic and modern Black Paris to life - TCW

New travel guide book shows treasures and vitality of 'Black Paris' aren't just for African-Americans

Chicago author Kiratiana Freelon has penned a new book extolling the treasures of "Black Paris," a guide unlike most others to the City of Light. If someone told me I could only live in one city for the rest of my life, without question, it would be Paris. I first visited the City of Light back in 1998, during my first trip to Europe, and I've been mad about it ever since. There's something about this place...

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Black Paris Tours founder Ricki Stevenson explains African-American history with Paris' Arc de Triomphe in the background.
During Ricki Stevenson's Black Paris Tours, she walks visitors past a monument honoring famed French writer Alexandre Dumas, himself of mixed black heritage.
Just as author Kiratiana Freelon does in her book, Black Paris Tours founder Ricki Stevenson takes visitors to African neighborhoods they aren't likely to visit during other Paris tours.
African-American artist Ealy Mays has lived in Paris for years, and leads visitors on Walking the Spirit Tours. Here he is inside a black artist's former apartment in Paris.
Tour guide and artist Ealy Mays pauses outside a Parisian Left Bank gallery, sharing stories about African-American artists whose work was shown here.
A glimpse at artwork in a Left Bank gallery that features a collage of President Barack Obama.