The docuseries will explore pressures, both political and economic, that sparked the migration. According to Gates, Detroit's ...

(upbeat music) - The African-American Great Migration was in fact one of the most significant demographic transformations in United States history. - The music that we associate with America.

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 ...

A People on the Move, a new four-part series hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., tells the story of African American ...

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

Detroit has one of the largest African American populations. A new documentary will explore the Great Migration, which played ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the personal and historic aspects of the mass movement of Black Southerners to the North known as the Great Migration.

Today we're finding out more about the new docuseries by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Great Migration of People on the Move, which tells the story of African American movement over the 20th and 21st ...

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

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few today understand his quest to promote the economic and cultural ...