During the Great Migration, six million Black Americans moved from the South up North. They wanted work opportunities and a respite from the sting of racist Jim Crow laws. Guest host Leah Fleming talks with New York Times columnist Charles Blow, who is pushing for a reversal of the Great Migration.
This year has been universally jarring to many of our routines and expectations of 2020. For 12-year-old Elijah Gomez growing up in the historic Grant Park neighborhood, this year catalyzed his love for arts and transformed it into a blog.
In "Love, M.," the joyful, complicated, intimate long-distance connections shared by mothers and sons during the AIDS epidemic are front and center. Playwright Clarinda Ross says the letters and voicemails in the play mirror the state of our own connections in the COVID-19 pandemic.
What started as YouTube drum covers and three girls scattered across the East Coast with a love for music turned into Meet Me @ the Altar, a pop-punk band led by three women of color who signed to a major record label Fueled By Ramen in October.
Change is in the air, and Atlanta-raised rapper and producer Jermaine Dupri created a new song titled "Change" to reflect on the current state of the world.
