During the Great Migration, Black Americans seeking a better life and more opportunity left Jim Crow south, with many landing ...

Feb. 18, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Wednesdays, Feb. 5 - 26 at 8 a.m. on KPBS 2. The series explores how a ...

As the title suggests, this is a series about migrants whose movements across our land ended up being the most consequential ...

Gates ("Gospel," "Making Black America," "Finding Your Roots") argues here that the Great Migration "continues to shape the ...

The free events include screenings of the new PBS docuseries "Great Migrations: A People on the Move," music and more.

The docuseries will explore pressures, both political and economic, that sparked the migration. According to Gates, Detroit's Black population rose by thousands in the early 1900s due to the Great ...

There’s a sense of pride for many Americans in our identity as a melting pot. But until the early part of the 20th Century, the United States was deeply segregated.

Stepping onto the platform at Michigan Central Station was stepping into a new chapter. For Black families leaving the Jim Crow South, Detroit was more than a destination. It was a declaration. They ...

Millions of people from the poor world are trying to cross seas, forests, valleys and rivers, in search of safety, work and ...

When African Americans left the rural South for the northern and western United States, what rituals and rations sustained ...

A look at how Black churches helped Southerners who came North during the Great Migration. In conjunction with PBS’ docuseries “Great Migrations,” American Black Journal’s “Black Church ...