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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Vance, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants.” ...

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 ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...

With Donald Trump signing an executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born to non-citizen parents, and ...

Over the coming months, I’ll be sharing dispatches from this new world in our new series, The Great Migration. I hope you’ll follow along and share your thoughts. Lydia Polgreen is an Opinion ...