Black Cities Ain’t Going Nowhere
“The theme of the U.S. Department of Justice’s annual Black History Month event this year was ‘Black Migrations,’ to discuss how African-American migratory patterns have shaped urban policy over the decades. The newly confirmed Attorney General William P. Barr acknowledged in his remarks that the first black migration was a forced one, from Africa to the Americas, and that the post-slavery black migrations of the 20th century—’when millions of African-Americans fled persecution in the South’—fueled the growth of cities such as Chicago, Detroit, and New York.”