Apart from a few stragglers who seem to have a fatefully spontaneous Wednesday afternoon free to visit BAMPFA’s “A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration,” the exhibit was ...

The Great Migration was a movement of more than 5 million Black Americans who moved from the rural South to the urban North between 1910 and 1970. Many people landed in Chicago.

Detroit native Stephen Henderson details his family’s history during The Great Migration. The Great Migration is the focus of a new PBS documentary series “Great Migrations: People on the Move” ...

They had no human fossils from sub-Saharan Africa from between 15,000 and 70,000 years ago. Because the epoch of the great migration was a blank slate, they could not say for sure that the modern ...

Black Midwestern communities existed before the Great Migration and shaped the region. Black communities existed in the Midwest long before the Great Migration. In this episode, Dr. Christy ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Last fall, on an overcast Sunday morning, I took a train from New York to Montclair, New Jersey, to see Auntie ...

In the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people came to Detroit via the Great Migration. Several made it by way of train, landing in the city for the first time via the Michigan Central Station.

This great migration brought our species to a position of world dominance that it has never relinquished and signaled the extinction of whatever competitors remained—Neanderthals in Europe and Asia, ...