I Walked From Selma To Montgomery

The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail is, at 54 miles, the shortest of America’s 19 National Historic Trails. It is also a hike in which the walking of it is a political act, and Rahawa Haile decides she has no choice but to hike it in the early days of the Trump Administration.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Apr 1, 2018
Length: 13 minutes (3,400 words)

Going It Alone

Rahawa Haile shares her story of hiking the Appalachian Trail as a queer black woman in the spring of 2016 — traveling through hundreds of miles in states that staunchly supported Donald Trump in the election.

Source: Outside
Published: Apr 11, 2017
Length: 15 minutes (3,787 words)

How Black Books Lit My Way Along The Appalachian Trail

Eritrean-American essayist and short story writer Rahawa Haile writes about hiking the Appalachian Trail and traveling through trail towns as a black woman alone. She brings along books by black authors and leaves them behind for others to find at shelters along the way. In keeping with her 2015 Short Story of the Day effort to garner exposure for underrepresented writers, she writes, “This year, I created a library of black excellence along the Appalachian Trail.”

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Feb 2, 2017
Length: 8 minutes (2,159 words)