PHOENIX — Over the past two decades, Black people disillusioned by the inequalities that have defined life in other states have moved to Arizona in droves, searching for more opportunities. Still, as transplants have found hope in the battleground state, the ability to build political power has struggled to take root. The state has emerged […]
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Reading List: This Generation’s Great Black Migration Is Worth a Closer Look
Black Americans are moving more than they ever have over the past 50 years, and just as during the Great Migration of the 20th century, they’re reshaping the entire fabric of the United States as they do. As Black folks leave the West, Midwest, and North, the South has been the only region with more […]
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Without a Sense of Home, Black America’s Mental Health Suffers
For Black and Caribbean Americans, so much of the meaning of home has been ruptured because of slavery and what happens when people are forcibly uprooted from their homes. Descendants from enslaved Africans most often lost that connection to their geographical lineage. It’s contributed to the inability of Black people to find cocoons in the […]
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Black Meccas Exist – But There’s a Catch
This is part of a yearlong Capital B series on the country’s current Black migration, the most significant movement of Black people in the U.S. in 50 years. It was made possible, in part, by a grant from the Environmental and Epistemic Justice Initiative at Wake Forest University. The search for a Black mecca since African […]
