African migrants said that repressive European anti-migration enforcement and coercive smugglers pushed them towards New York City.

A People on the Move, a new four-part series hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., tells the story of African American movement over the 20th and 21st centuries. We spoke with the series ...

There is a tension in U.S. public opinion about President Trump’s immigration plans.

Important studies like Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa and Black Americans and the Evangelization of ...

A recent episode of PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" featured Rita Dove, an award-winning poet from Akron.

A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE, a new history series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The 4-part series examines the powerful influence of ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the personal and historic aspects of the mass movement of Black Southerners to the North known as the Great Migration.

For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined ...

Altadena, California, was among Los Angeles County's first Black middle-class enclaves. Some fear recent wildfires may have ...

When it comes to defending Christianity and religious freedom and opposing abortion, Christian leaders like what they see in ...

Today’s push for school vouchers highlights America’s long and sometimes forgotten history of resisting integration in the classroom.

There’s a sense of pride for many Americans in our identity as a melting pot. But until the early part of the 20th Century, ...