The oxbow’s natural shoreline along the Rouge River, once eliminated for flood control, has been restored and transformed ...

Great Migrations: A People on The Move is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, ...

One Detroit is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ... You have what's happening at Michigan Central, the Henry Ford project, other things that are going on, the District Detroit ...

Gates ("Gospel," "Making Black America," "Finding Your Roots") argues here that the Great Migration "continues to shape the ...

The docuseries will explore pressures, both political and economic, that sparked the migration. According to Gates, Detroit's Black population rose by thousands in the early 1900s due to the Great ...

As he does with his popular PBS series, “Finding Your Roots ... pulling together information on topics like Henry Ford’s 1914 introduction of a $5-a-day wage (double the minimum wage ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the personal and historic aspects of the mass movement of Black Southerners to the North known as the Great Migration.

Influential conservatives of the time such as Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford, as well as such organizations ... including his Firing Line talk show on PBS, helped defeat the liberal ...

Their conversation led to a PBS documentary ... Others featured in the documentary are former Nixon and Ford national security adviser Henry Kissinger; anti-Marxism and anti-communism activist ...

Stepping onto the platform at Michigan Central Station was stepping into a new chapter. For Black families leaving the Jim Crow South, Detroit was more than a destination. It was a declaration. They ...