This first-ever cruise was a five day celebration of unity and Black joy Fifteen hundred people, including me, left America for a magical experience the day after Donald Trump became the president-elect. We boarded the Norwegian Pearl in the port of Miami for the first ever Uber Soca Cruise, a five-day fete, aka soca party, to Jamaica and back (though many of us seriously considered not returning). We left for freedom. Branded as “an experience beyond the music,” the cruise w