Leroy Adams created The Buddy Pass to share the joy and beauty of Black travel through stories, planning tips and lifestyle pieces.
Leroy Adams is the founder, publisher and executive editor of The Buddy Pass magazine, a publication that documents the stories and experiences of Black travelers across the globe.In the summer of 2020, when the U.S. was experiencing both a racial reckoning and an early peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Leroy Adams turned the deep sorrow he felt into motivation to create a space to empower Black travelers to explore the world and escape tribulation.
He became the first person in his family to obtain a U.S. passport and travel abroad. During his trip, he met many Taiwanese people fascinated by Black culture and history, which he enjoyed sharing.Adams, in turn, was fascinated by travel. He returned to finish his degree at UH and immediately joined the Peace Corps, moving to Ethiopia to teach and train teachers; He ended up leading an effort to build classrooms as well.
Leroy Adams teaches an English class at Butajira Secondary School in central Ethiopia in 2014. Adams trained there with the Peace Crops before locating to Endabaguna, in northern Ethiopia, for his official assignment.“That was another opportunity for me to say, ‘I can show people from my community that we can experience opportunities like this,’ because no one else is going to do it,” Adams said.
“Because our stories are so raw, and because our stories are also imbued with the discrimination that we experience in the states, no one is interested in those stories because they’re painful,” he said. “For us, it’s a reality. We don’t travel just for a vacation. Black people [also] travel to get away from America, because we’re tired, we’re exhausted because of what we deal with here.”
The Buddy Pass podcast highlighted those experiences. But Adams wanted to do more. He planned to create a book out of 10 podcast episodes, with contributed photos.
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