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 ...

six million African-Americans left the South seeking equality and opportunity in the North and West in what's been called the Great American Migration. Many, like Florence Price, settled in Chicago.

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Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover demographic, social and economic trends around the world. There's still much room for economic improvement for the nation's black ...

I could go on. Let us look at the root causes of the Great Migration and the largest domestic terrorist acts in America, the harassment and the lynching of Black Americans by the Ku Klux Klan.

Environmental activists and preservationists have lauded the move toward landmark designation as a way to protect the area, ...

From 1915, social injustice, poverty and fear drove half a million African Americans from the South to the North, in what was called The Great Migration. In the North, African Americans had to ...

and with African Americans who were part of the Great Migration. It is easy to overlook the Southeast Side, but when you look at the Chicago skyline that makes our city so iconic, you see the ...

When four-star Army Gen. Laura Richardson became the first woman to lead the U.S. Southern Command three years ago, she ...