Between 1910 and 1970, approximately 6 million Black people left the American South for what they hoped would be a better future in the North in what’s known as the Great Migration.
A new four-part documentary series hosted and executive produced by Henry Louis Gates Jr. tells not only that story, but also modern-day stories of Black migration — both back to the American South, and from Africa and the Caribbean.
Nailah Ife Sims, who directed the new film along with colleague Julia Marchesi, said she and her team “wanted to make a series that illustrates just how migration is a defining factor in the Black American story that’s ongoing.”…