The young Black woman wanted her grandmother to see her in the sanctuary and “to run to her Hershey-­sweet brown arms” and receive a “coconut rabbit cake on a jelly-bean platter; every year under the ...

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 Clark ...

CHICAGO — During the Great Migration, more than six million Black people moved to the North and West of the United States, driven to escape the racial violence and oppression of the Jim Crow South.

The Great Migration of African Americans north toward jobs, education, and stability brought a large number of individuals to ...

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 Clark ...