Isabel Wilkerson has added another important book to the long tradition of serious writings on the interplay between American society’s white-supremacist practices and the migration of black American ...

About 6 million Black people left the South in the Great Migration between 1910 and 1970. A four-part documentary from Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the Great Migration of the 20th century while also ...

Black Americans are now “coming home” to Kenya to reconnect with their shared heritage. The “reverse migration” effort has grown in popularity over recent years. Black Americans have established their ...

pt. 1. Introduction: "The great American protest" -- Origins of the Great Migration -- Wartime opportunities in the North -- The promised land? -- Wartime Black leaders, the New Negro, and grassroots ...

An upcoming PBS series will explore a 20th century phenomenon that brought millions of Black Southerners to cities above the Mason Dixon Line, including Philadelphia. "Great Migrations: A People on ...

The “Black Church in Detroit” series examines the role of Black women during the Great Migration. American Black Journal’s "Black Church in Detroit" series looks at the influence Black women had in ...

During the Great Migration, from 1916 to 1970, millions of poor Black people left the South for a better life in the North. Philadelphia, for example, saw a 500 percent increase in its Black ...

Introduction / Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez -- Part 1. Making Blackness serve. Containing bodies - enscandalizing enslavement : stasis and movement at the juncture of slave-ship images ...

On June 19, 1865, news of freedom finally reached the remaining enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas—two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, but undeniable nonetheless. Since then, Black ...

Many are headed to Kenya to reclaim their roots and escape the anti-blackness found in America. Black Americans are now “coming home” to Kenya to reconnect with their shared heritage. The “reverse ...