Before the Civil War, the vast majority (approximately 90 percent) of African Americans lived in the South. Though some former slaves moved away from the South after the war, most of the ...

From 1920 to 1930, the African American population exploded in Chicago, increasing from 109,458 to 233,903 residents in just a decade. The Great Migration of people was accompanied by a musical ...

Political debates on immigration tend to be one-sided, examining only the effects of migrants on host countries. For a more ...

The Braceville African American Heritage Museum in collaboration with the Braceville Community Foundation is holding a ...

There's a Great Digital Migration happening on the ... Ashon Crawley, a professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia, told NBC News ...

"Great Migrations" also explores the cultural and political impact that Black residents had on their new homes and an eventual "reverse" migration back to the South. The series is hosted by Henry ...

It has also been plausibly argued that the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the factories in the North would not have happened if factory owners had been ...

President Trump ran on a promise to fix America’s broken immigration status quo. Working-class voters of all races gave him ...

A century ago, overwhelming majorities of both parties in Congress voted for the Immigration Act of 1924, which dramatically cut immigration.