great migration

A smile crossed my face when a local NBC outlet recently touted 90-year-old U.S. Postal Service employee Leroy Brown. He has worked for the federal government for 70 years, most of that time for the post office, and has no plans to retire. My father worked at the post office’s World Way location...

Everyone knows about the reverse Great Migration back South and how a few cities are the biggest beneficiaries. What you might not be aware of is that migration is heavily biased towards the young and educated. The overall migrant population is more educated than the Black community at large...

SHADOWS OF THE GREAT MIGRATION Pinky Cole was born and raised in east Baltimore, but crisscrossed the country after college graduation living in Texas, New York City, Los Angeles and Connecticut in pursuit of various career paths. But it wasn’t until she moved to Atlanta that she felt at home...

What Southern states, counties, and towns did your people come from originally? Do you hear similar linguistic patterns among the ppl in your current city as ppl in the Southern state your kin migrated from? Do you feel a natural kinship with the ppl in those Southern towns who aren't family? I...

Think about it. Millions of blacks moving to cities in the North and West due to economic downturn and lynchings/pogroms (refugee crisis). Sending money back South (remittances). Living in homes with multiple people. Whites complaining about migrants stealing jobs that they would never work...

Her birthday was October 6, 1917