Great Migration
Posted Aug. 16, 2017
I’m No Black Revolutionary But After Charlottesville I Want to Be
This weekend, there was a terrible and very telling incident in Charlottesville, Virginia. While emotions are high and people are scared, to me, this is…
Posted June 19, 2017
The Genius in Every Black Family: Our ‘Hidden Figure’
I’m visiting my aunt and uncle in Los Angeles, and we decide to watch the movie “Hidden Figures,” about three little-known Black women whose mathematical…
Posted Apr. 3, 2017
The Second Great Migration for Black Families Is Embracing School Choice
Like hundreds of thousands of Black families, my paternal grandmother and several of her relatives participated in the Great Migration, one of the most dramatic…
Posted May 26, 2016
From ‘Great Migration’ to ‘First Generation’
My grandparents traveled from Mississippi to Chicago during the Great Migration. My grandfather, Robert Thompson, was a hard worker who took a job at a…
