What places are younger Black folks leaving? Where are they going? How have their migration patterns transformed their relationship to place? Stories from modern migrations, via BlackJoyReckon:
Sign up to get positive Black news stories, words of affirmation and weekly curated playlists delivered to your inbox twice a week:Mississippi is often regarded as the worst of the United States. The worst politics. The worst education system. The worst healthcare. The worst.
Her childhood best friend, Lodean Cotton, had the same determined spirit. She learned early on that the only jobs for Black women in their hometown was housework. But she had dreams beyond toiling in the home of others. “We worked very hard. I worked very hard. I used to get up in the morning before going to school to milk cows and then walk to school, which was about maybe a quarter of a mile on a dual highway,” she tells me.
Oftentimes, we think of Migration within the United States as moving from South to North, or vice versus. Maybe from the West Coast to the East Coast. But really, migration is any move of great enough caliber to garner culture shock. Black folks exhibit such a diverse range of cultural markers based on the part of the country we live, so we are especially sensitive to the upheaval intrinsic to a cross-country move.
While she missed her family and the community she left behind, living in Portland had benefits she couldn’t ignore. There was a similar surprise sitting quietly at the back of my mind when speaking with Ari Green, a 29-year-old Ph.D. student who moved from Sacramento, California to Raleigh, North Carolina for school.
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