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 ...

The flourishing Black business district in Detroit, Mich., photographed in 1942. Arthur S. Siegel via the Library of Congress, CC BY-ND Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great ...

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 ...

Students at Pilgrim Lutheran School in Wauwatosa are participating in a three-week in-school Black history camp.

In 1972, the journalist Richard Pollak issued a proposal to leftist hippies: They should take over Vermont. “Not by staging a weekend rock festival at Rutland,” he wrote in Playboy magazine, but in ...

Two Detroit ministers discuss women’s impact in the church and community during the Great Migration. Much is documented about the men who migrated to Detroit during the Great Migration. However, the ...

Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kendra D. Boyd, Rutgers University (THE CONVERSATION) Black businesses were essential ...