40 Acres The long history of racist housing discrimination in America. On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone interviews Matthew Desmond, Isabel Wilkerson, and others about evictions, Great Migrations, reparations after the end of the Civil War went to enslavers and not…
Read MoreOn Tuesday, December 11, 5:30 pm—7:30 pm, Isabel Wilkerson will be speaking at Princeton University’s Betts Auditorium. Pulitzer Prize winner and National Humanities Medal recipient Isabel Wilkerson is the author of The New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics…
Read More“The Great Migration not only reshaped national and local politics, but also led to fundamental changes in the ways that African Americans in the urban north worked, worshiped, dwelled, and understood their place in the world. This cross-disciplinary conversation brings…
Read MoreMarch 9, 2017 @ 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Labyrinth Books Professor Judith Weisenfeld discusses her new book, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration, in conversation with her colleague in Religion, Professor Wallace…
Read MoreSelected by the Reference & User Services Association of the American Library Association as one of the Best Free Reference Websites in 2015, In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience “presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on…
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