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

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

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 ...

Gates ("Gospel," "Making Black America," "Finding Your Roots") argues here that the Great Migration "continues to shape the identity of Black Americans." But this four-parter presses the case that it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bastrop residents and business owners are preparing for a boom brought on by Elon Musk's companies. But the great migration ...

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 ...

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 ...