Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

The Southern accent, which has many variations, is fading in some areas as people migrate to the region from other parts of the U.S. and around the world.

The classical white Southern accent in the Atlanta area and other parts of the urban South peaked with baby boomers born ...

His family was part of the Great Migration of African Americans moving from the South in the 1940s. His father worked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and after World War II ended the family moved ...

During the Great Migration, from roughly 1910 to 1970, African Americans from the South moved to cities in the North like New York, Detroit and Chicago. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren ...

Before the Great Migration of African Americans north from the Southern states, beginning in the 1950s, Minnesota’s Black residents made up less than 1% of the state’s population. Today ...

This great global migration is a staggeringly complex phenomenon ... (In this data, Latin Americans passing through Mexico en route to the United States are not counted as Mexican migrants.) ...

CHICAGO — During the Great Migration, more than six million ... into one particular beginning and endpoint of Black American migration: the Gulf South and Chicagoland. Simultaneously, the ...

The recent election of Pope Leo XIV, né Robert Francis Prevost, marks a significant moment in history, not only because he is ...