BLACK PARIS TOURS

05/09/2026

France experienced its hottest summer on record in 2026 🌡️⬇️

05/09/2026

05/09/2026

This summer's heatwaves cost the Louvre at least 1 million euros (about 1.1 million dollars) in lost ticket revenue, and forced France's National Monuments Center to refund 525,000 euros (about 570,000 dollars) to visitors after closing sites early.

Paris went through several rounds of extreme heat between June and August, and museums across the country had to adapt fast. The Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Château de Versailles all moved up their closing times during the worst days, some shutting their doors by 4 pm instead of staying open into the evening. At the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau in the Loire Valley, the heat forced early closures seven separate times and visitor numbers dropped 10% in July and 15% in August.

It wasn't only the heat keeping people away. With fewer foreign visitors this year and French households spending more carefully because of rising fuel prices, the whole summer tourist season came in weaker than usual.

05/09/2026

This is the most factual video I’ve seen telling the story of THE FATHER of famed Black French author Alexander Dumas (don’t pronounce the “S” at the end. Just a few facts left out…..those you’ll hear on our Black Paris Tour!

05/09/2026

On Friday, September 25, Pope Leo XIV will ride through the streets of Paris in the popemobile, from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

The route covers about 1.6 miles (2.5 km), starting at the church of Saint-Sulpice and finishing at Place Saint-Michel, crossing through Boulevard du Montparnasse and Boulevard Saint-Michel on the way to the Seine.

The whole thing is free and open to anyone, no reservation needed. But it is not a simple walk-up. The crowd will be split into 12 separate reception zones, each with its own security checkpoint. Once you are inside one zone, you cannot cross into another. You would need to exit the secured perimeter entirely and go through screening again somewhere else.

Security checkpoints open at noon, four hours before the Pope even arrives.

This ride is just the opening move of a packed day. Before it, Leo XIV meets President Macron and visits UNESCO headquarters. After it, he leads Vespers at Notre-Dame de Paris that evening. It is part of a four day journey across France, taking him next to Lourdes and Metz, and it marks the first state visit by a pope to Paris since Benedict XVI in 2008.

04/09/2026

VICTOR HUGO GREEN THE BLACK MAN WHO CREATED A TRAVEL GUIDE FOR SURVIVAL

Imagine getting into your car with your family and realizing that you couldn’t simply stop at any hotel, restaurant, or gas station.

During the Jim Crow era, Black Americans traveling across the United States faced widespread discrimination. Businesses could refuse service, accommodations could be unavailable to them, and traveling through unfamiliar towns could bring humiliation, harassment, or worse.

Victor Hugo Green, a Black postal worker in New York, understood the problem.

In 1936, Green began publishing The Negro Motorist Green Book.

It was designed to help Black travelers find businesses and establishments where they could be served including hotels, restaurants, gas stations, beauty shops, barbershops, garages, resorts and other businesses.

What began with listings concentrated around New York eventually expanded across the United States and beyond.

The Green Book became much more than a directory.

It became a roadmap through a country where freedom of movement was not experienced equally.

By the early 1960s, the publication had grown enormously. The National Park Service notes that by 1962, it had a circulation of more than 2 million nationwide.

Green died in 1960, but his wife Alma continued the work, and the publication continued into the 1960s. As civil-rights legislation dismantled legal segregation, the need for the guide gradually declined.

Today, the Green Book reminds us of something easy to forget:

The ability to travel freely was not always equally available to everyone.

Victor Hugo Green didn’t just publish a book.
He helped people navigate America.

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