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 ...

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 ...

When African Americans left the rural South for the northern and western United States, what rituals and rations sustained ...

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 ...

(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.

The Great Migration is the massive migration, or movement, of African Americans from multiple different states throughout the American South. They see the North and the West as this opportunity to ...

Literacy InterActives, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Southside Virginia, is thrilled to announce the return of its Black History Month series for our community readers. The 2025 Black ...

The free events include screenings of the new PBS docuseries "Great Migrations: A People on the Move," music and more.

Stepping onto the platform at Michigan Central Station was stepping into a new chapter. For Black families leaving the Jim Crow South, Detroit was more than a destination. It was a declaration. They ...

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